PT-2005-5507 · Spey · Spey

Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-4846

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 Spey version 0.3.3

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, potentially leading to a crash, and may also enable the execution of arbitrary code. This is achieved through the use of format string specifiers in a syslog call within the Logger.cc component.

Recommendations For Spey version 0.3.3, update to a version that fixes the format string vulnerability in Logger.cc to prevent potential denial of service and arbitrary code execution.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4846

Affected Products

Spey

References · 5

• 🔥 http://spey.cvs.sourceforge.net/spey/spey/src/Logger.cc?r1=1.5&r2=1.6 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4846 · Security Note
• http://spey.cvs.sourceforge.net/spey/spey/src/Logger.cc?view=log · Note
• http://osvdb.org/21327 · Note
• http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=514029 · Note