Thiago Melo De Paula Change passwd 3.1 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Thiago Melo De Paula Change passwd 3.1. It has been declared as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-0331. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Thiago Melo De Paula Change passwd 3.1. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation 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:

Buffer overflow in Change passwd 3.1 (chpasswd) SquirrelMail plugin allows local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments.

The weakness was disclosed 01/19/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at squirrelmail.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-0331 since 01/20/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by rod hedor and been published 6 days after the advisory. 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 (24258), Exploit-DB (1449) and OSVDB (27905†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: rod hedor
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Timelineinfo

01/19/2006 🔍
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01/25/2006 +5 days 🔍
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03/12/2015 +3132 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: squirrelmail.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-0331 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-0331
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-28412
X-Force: 24258 - Change SQL Password Change_passwd buffer overflow
OSVDB: 27905 - SquirrelMail Change Passwd Plugin chpasswd Local Overflow

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 11:11
Updated: 02/03/2025 01:45
Changes: 03/12/2015 11:11 (46), 08/04/2017 08:45 (13), 02/03/2025 01:45 (16)
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