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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat adminutil 1.1.6. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Heap-based buffer overflow in Red Hat adminutil 1.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via % (percent) encoded HTTP input to unspecified CGI scripts in Fedora Directory Server. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-2929.
The bug was discovered 07/09/2008. The weakness was disclosed 09/12/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared at redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-2932 since 06/30/2008. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 58 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 34127 (Fedora 9 : adminutil-1.1.7-1.fc9 (2008-7339)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks and running in the context l.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (45203) and Tenable (34127).
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 34127
Nessus Name: Fedora 9 : adminutil-1.1.7-1.fc9 (2008-7339)
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OpenVAS ID: 860946
OpenVAS Name: Family Connections argv[1] Parameter Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
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Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: redhat.com
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CVE: CVE-2008-2932 (🔍)
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X-Force: 45203
Vulnerability Center: 19476 - Red Hat Fedora Directory Server adminutil 1.1.6 Remote DoS or Code Execution, High
SecurityFocus: 31106 - Red Hat Fedora Directory Server HTTP Unescaping Functions Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 31777
OSVDB: 48255 - Red Hat - Fedora - Directory Server HTTP Unescaping Functions Buffer Overflow Issue
Entry
Created: 03/17/2015 16:11Updated: 08/16/2019 21:39
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (71), 08/16/2019 21:39 (8)
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