Sandh News Rover 12.1 memory corruption

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A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in Sandh News Rover 12.1. Affected is some unknown processing. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in S&H Computer Systems News Rover 12.1 Rev 1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .nzb file with a long (1) group or (2) subject string.

The weakness was presented 02/20/2007 by Marsu Pilami with Marsu (Website). The advisory is available at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-1041 since 02/21/2007. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/24/2024).

A public exploit has been developed by Marsu in ANSI C and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as functional.

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 (32576), Exploit-DB (3342), SecurityFocus (BID 22618†), OSVDB (33253†) and Secunia (SA24216†).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
Status: Functional
Author: Marsu
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Advisory: milw0rm.com
Researcher: Marsu Pilami
Organization: Marsu
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-1041 (🔍)
X-Force: 32576 - News Rover NZB file buffer overflow
SecurityFocus: 22618 - News Rover Subject Line Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 24216 - News Rover NZB File Processing Buffer Overflow, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 33253 - News Rover NZB File Processing Multiple Field Overflow
Vupen: ADV-2007-0663

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

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Created: 03/13/2015 12:16 PM
Updated: 08/24/2024 07:23 AM
Changes: 03/13/2015 12:16 PM (66), 10/10/2017 01:06 PM (4), 08/24/2024 07:23 AM (16)
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