A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Lexmark T522 Network Printer (Printing Software) (version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component HTTP Server. The manipulation of the argument Host with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The HTTP server in Lexmark T522 and possibly other models allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash, reload, or hang) via an HTTP header with a long Host field, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

The weakness was published 07/21/2004 by Peter Kruse (Website). The advisory is shared for download at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-0740 since 07/22/2004. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (16752), Exploit-DB (358), SecurityFocus (BID 10765†), OSVDB (8141†) and Secunia (SA12112†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Printing Software

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• Lexmark

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• T522 Network Printer

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