National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2362

Overview

Multiple buffer overflows in MyDNS 1.1.0 allow remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain update, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in update.c; and (2) cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via unspecified vectors that trigger an off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in update.c.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: mydns-update-bo(33933)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33933

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1561

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1561

External Source: BID

Name: 23694

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23694

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.digit-labs.org/files/patches/mydns-update.c.diff

Hyperlink:http://www.digit-labs.org/files/patches/mydns-update.c.diff

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/mydns-rr-smash.c

Hyperlink:http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/mydns-rr-smash.c

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25007

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25007

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 35439

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/35439

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 35438

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/35438

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20070427 mydns-1.1.0 remote heap overflow

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-April/054024.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1434

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1434

External Source: SREASON

Name: 2658

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2658

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28086

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28086