National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3252
Original release date:07/21/2008
Last revised:09/11/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_article function in getarticle.c in newsx 1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a news article containing a large number of lines starting with a period.
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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454483
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-6321
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-6319
External Source: XF
Name: newsx-readarticle-bo(43844)
External Source: BID
Name: 30231
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1622
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31307
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31080
Type: Advisory
