AlstraSoft E-friends 4.85 lang memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in AlstraSoft E-friends 4.85. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument lang leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2006-4913. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in AlstraSoft E-friends 4.85. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation of the argument lang 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. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in chat/getStartOptions.php in AlstraSoft E-friends 4.85 allows remote attackers to include arbitrary local files and possibly execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) sequence and trailing null (%00) byte in the lang parameter, as demonstrated by injecting PHP code into a log file.

The weakness was presented 09/20/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-4913 since 09/20/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Kw3[R]Ln in Perl and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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 (29006), Exploit-DB (2389), SecurityFocus (BID 20088†) and Secunia (SA21961†). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
Status: Functional
Author: Kw3[R]Ln
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: alstrasoft.com

Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-4913 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-4913
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-32393
X-Force: 29006 - AlstraSoft E-Friends chat/getStartOptions.php file include
SecurityFocus: 20088 - AlstraSoft E-friends 'GetStartOptions.php' Local File Include Vulnerability
Secunia: 21961 - AlstraSoft E-Friends File Inclusion and SQL Injection, Moderately Critical
Vupen: ADV-2006-3684

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 15:51
Updated: 07/21/2024 05:10
Changes: 03/12/2015 15:51 (55), 08/04/2018 09:49 (12), 07/21/2024 05:10 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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