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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0157

Original release date:01/09/2007

Last revised:11/15/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Array index error in the uri_lookup function in the URI parser for neon 0.26.0 to 0.26.2, possibly only on 64-bit platforms, allows remote malicious servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a URI with non-ASCII characters, which triggers a buffer under-read due to a type conversion error that generates a negative index.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:7.8 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/15/2007)

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the older versions of neon as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4. This issue also does not affect the older versions of neon included in the cadaver package.

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External Source: OSVDB

Name: 39247

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/39247

External Source: MLIST

Name: [neon] 20070107 invalid chars cause sigserv in neon

Hyperlink:http://mailman.webdav.org/pipermail/neon/2007-January/002362.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404723

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404723

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/neon26_0.26.2-3_to_mdx1.diff?bug=404723;msg=5;att=2

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/neon26_0.26.2-3_to_mdx1.diff?bug=404723;msg=5;att=2