Adiscon Winsyslog 4.21 Sp1/5.0 Beta Syslog Message memory corruption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Adiscon Winsyslog 4.21 Sp1/5.0 Beta. This affects an unknown part of the component Syslog Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Adiscon WinSyslog 4.21 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long syslog message.

The weakness was presented 12/31/2003 by SecuriTeam with SecuriTeam.com (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-1518 since 10/25/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11884 (WinSyslog Long Syslog Message Remote DoS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows, running in the context r and relying on port 514.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (13428), Exploit-DB (23242), Tenable (11884) and SecurityFocus (BID 8821†).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 11884
Nessus Name: WinSyslog Long Syslog Message Remote DoS
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OpenVAS ID: 11884
OpenVAS Name: WinSyslog (DoS)
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: SecuriTeam
Organization: SecuriTeam.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2003-1518 (🔍)
X-Force: 13428
SecurityFocus: 8821 - WinSyslog Interactive Syslog Server Long Message Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 09/26/2014 05:24 PM
Updated: 02/05/2025 01:55 PM
Changes: 09/26/2014 05:24 PM (68), 04/29/2019 09:12 PM (3), 02/05/2025 01:55 PM (19)
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