PT-2008-4668 · Newsx · Newsx

Enrico Scholz · Publicado 2008-07-21 · Atualizado 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3252

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

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Alta

Vetor base

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: newsx version 1.6

Description: The issue is a stack-based buffer overflow in the read article function, located in getarticle.c. This occurs when a news article contains a large number of lines starting with a period, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations: For newsx version 1.6, consider applying a patch or fix to the read article function to prevent the buffer overflow, or temporarily restrict the processing of news articles with a large number of lines starting with a period until a patch is available.

Correção

Buffer Overflow

Enumeração de Fraquezas

CWE-119

Identificadores relacionados

CVE-2008-3252

DSA-1622-1

Produtos afetados

Newsx

Referências · 9

• http://secunia.com/advisories/31080 · Aviso do Fabricante
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1622 · Aviso do Fabricante
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3252 · Nota de Segurança
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00565.html · Aviso do Fabricante
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43844 · Nota
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30231 · Nota
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00485.html · Aviso do Fabricante
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454483 · Correção
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31307 · Nota