CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in XFree86 up to 4.2.1. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Pixmap Generator. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a numeric error vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-189. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Multiple integer overflows in XFree86 before 4.3.0 allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pixmap image.
The bug was discovered 05/05/2004. The weakness was presented 09/13/2005 by Luke Hutchison as Bug 166859 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-2495 since 08/08/2005. Access to the local network is required for this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 496 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22952 (Solaris 10 (sparc) : 119059-73 (deprecated)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks and running in the context l.
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at xfree86.org. The problem might be mitigated by replacing the product with as an alternative. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be establishing an alternative product. A possible mitigation has been published 6 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (22244) and Tenable (22952). See 1747 and 38077 for similar entries.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Class: Numeric errorCWE: CWE-189
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Nessus ID: 22952
Nessus Name: Solaris 10 (sparc) : 119059-73 (deprecated)
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OpenVAS ID: 55445
OpenVAS Name: Slackware Advisory SSA:2005-269-02 X.Org pixmap overflow
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Patch: xfree86.org
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Sources
Advisory: Bug 166859Researcher: Luke Hutchison
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-2495 (🔍)
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X-Force: 22244
SecurityTracker: 1014887
Vulnerability Center: 9196 - X.Org Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Pixmap Memory Allocation, Medium
SecurityFocus: 14807 - XFree86 Pixmap Allocation Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 16777 - XFree86 Pixmap Creation Integer Overflow Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 19352 - X11/XFree86 Pixmap Allocation Local Overflow
Vupen: ADV-2006-3140
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Entry
Created: 09/14/2005 16:21Updated: 07/04/2019 12:48
Changes: 09/14/2005 16:21 (92), 07/04/2019 12:48 (5)
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