National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5381

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Line Printer Daemon (LPD) in Cisco IOS before 12.2(18)SXF11, 12.4(16a), and 12.4(2)T6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by setting a long hostname on the target system, then causing an error message to be printed, as demonstrated by a telnet session to the LPD from a source port other than 515.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#230505

Name: VU#230505

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/230505

External Source: XF

Name: cisco-ios-lpd-bo(37046)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/37046

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3457

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3457

External Source: BID

Name: 26001

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26001

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.irmplc.com/index.php/155-Advisory-024

Hyperlink:http://www.irmplc.com/index.php/155-Advisory-024

External Source: CISCO

Name: 20071010 Cisco IOS Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Protocol Stack Overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_response09186a00808d72e3.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27169

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27169

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 37935

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/37935

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018798

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018798