National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1866
Original release date:04/04/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Stack-based buffer overflow in the dns_decode_reverse_name function in dns_decode.c in dproxy-nexgen allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a crafted packet to port 53/udp, a different issue than CVE-2007-1465.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1194
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24688
Type: Advisory
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20070331 Re: dproxy-nexgen remote
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20070331 dproxy-nexgen remote
External Source: MISC
Name: http://dproxy.cvs.sourceforge.net/dproxy/dproxy-nexgen/dns_decode.c?revision=1.10&view=markup
External Source: SREASON
Name: 2518
