PT-2005-4003 · W3C+1 · W3C-Libwww+1

Sam Varshavchik · Published 2005-10-12 · Updated 2018-10-03 · CVE-2005-3183

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions w3c-libwww (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote servers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a segmentation fault. This is achieved by sending a crafted multipart/byteranges MIME message, which triggers an out-of-bounds read in the HTBoundary put block function.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-3183

RHSA-2007:0208

RHSA-2007_0208

Affected Products

Red Hat

W3C-Libwww

References · 18

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159597 · Exploit
• http://securityfocus.com/advisories/9444 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:210 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0208.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3183 · Security Note
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/220-1 · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.10/SCOSA-2006.10.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/advisories/9445 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9653 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17119 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17122 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-3183 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17489 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0208 · Note