OPIE Off-by-One Buffer Overflow Lets Remote Users Deny Service
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1024040 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1024040
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2010-1938
(Links to External Site)
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Date: May 27 2010
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Version(s): 2.4.1 and prior versions
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in OPIE. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can send specially crafted data to an application that uses OPIE for authentication to trigger an off-by-one buffer overflow and cause the target application to crash.
It is possible that a remote user may be able to exploit this to execute arbitrary code.
Maksymilian Arciemowicz and Adam Zabrocki reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can the target application that uses OPIE to crash.
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Solution:
No solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Cause:
Boundary error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 04:58:04 +0000
Subject: OPIE
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http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:05.opie.asc
CVE-2010-1938
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