National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2905

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5, 0.51.6, and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request to display a crafted text dialog box.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1894

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1894

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/newt/newt_0.52.2-10+etch1.diff.gz

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/newt/newt_0.52.2-10+etch1.diff.gz

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:1463

Hyperlink:https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1463.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-0528

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-837-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-837-1

External Source: BID

Name: 36515

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36515

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100067251

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100067251

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38833

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38833

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38794

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38794

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 37922

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/37922

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9664

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9664

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8556

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8556

External Source: MLIST

Name: [security-announce] 20100303 VMSA-2010-0004 ESX Service Console and vMA third party updates

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:017

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9664

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9664

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8556

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8556