National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-4581

Overview

Buffer overflow in Electric Sheep 2.6.3 client allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long window-id parameter. NOTE: because the program is not setuid and not normally called from remote programs, there may not be a typical attack vector for the issue that crosses privilege boundaries. Therefore this may not be a vulnerability.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20051223 Electric Sheep window-id stack overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/420160/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://electricsheep.org/release_notes.html

Hyperlink:http://electricsheep.org/release_notes.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://electricsheep.org/index.cgi?&menu=talk

Hyperlink:http://electricsheep.org/index.cgi?&menu=talk

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://draves.org/HyperNews/get.cgi/flame/1478/1.html

Hyperlink:http://draves.org/HyperNews/get.cgi/flame/1478/1.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://draves.org/HyperNews/get.cgi/flame/1478.html

Hyperlink:http://draves.org/HyperNews/get.cgi/flame/1478.html

External Source: XF

Name: electric-sheep-windowid-bo(23893)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/23893