PT-2012-5386 · Apache · Guacamole

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2012-10-01 · Updated 2012-10-01 · CVE-2012-4415

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Guacamole versions prior to 0.6.3

Description The issue is related to a stack-based buffer overflow in the guac client plugin open function in libguac. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long protocol name.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.6.3, update to version 0.6.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the guac client plugin open function until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4415

Affected Products

Guacamole

References · 14

• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-09/0107.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/55497 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/37788 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4415 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088218.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://guac-dev.org/trac/changeset/7dcefa744b4a38825619c00ae8b47e5bae6e38c0/libguac · Patch
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088272.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4415 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4415 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088031.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4415 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/11/3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/11/7 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856743 · Note