National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2540

Overview

mapserv.c in mapserv in MapServer before 4.10.6 and 5.x before 5.6.4 does not properly restrict the use of CGI command-line arguments that were intended for debugging, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via crafted arguments.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: mapserver-cgi-code-execution(60852)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/60852

External Source: BID

Name: 41855

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41855

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3485

Hyperlink:http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3485

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100721 Re: CVE id request: mapserver

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127973754121922&w=2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100721 CVE id request: mapserver

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127973381215859&w=2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [mapserver-users] 20100709 MapServer 5.6.4 and 4.10.6 released with important security fixes

Hyperlink:http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2010-July/066052.html