Pan up to 0.132 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Pan. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-2363. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Pan. It has been declared as very critical. This vulnerability affects some 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. CVE summarizes:

The PartsBatch class in Pan 0.132 and earlier does not properly manage the data structures for Parts batches, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .nzb file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

The bug was discovered 05/16/2008. The weakness was shared 06/02/2008 by Pavel Polischouk (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2008-2363 since 05/21/2008. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 08/11/2019).

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 17 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 33781 (GLSA-200807-15 : Pan: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (42750), Tenable (33781), SecurityFocus (BID 29421†), OSVDB (45944†) and Secunia (SA30717†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.5

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Exploitinginfo

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

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 33781
Nessus Name: GLSA-200807-15 : Pan: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
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OpenVAS ID: 61466
OpenVAS Name: Slackware Advisory SSA:2008-217-02 pan
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

05/16/2008 🔍
05/21/2008 +5 days 🔍
05/29/2008 +8 days 🔍
06/02/2008 +4 days 🔍
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06/17/2008 +15 days 🔍
07/31/2008 +44 days 🔍
08/01/2008 +1 days 🔍
03/16/2015 +2418 days 🔍
08/11/2019 +1609 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Pavel Polischouk
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-2363 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-2363
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-42604

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X-Force: 42750
SecurityFocus: 29421 - Pan '.nzb' File Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 30717
OSVDB: 45944 - Pan - '.nzb' File Parsing Heap Overflow Issue
Vulnerability Center: 18626 - Pan Buffer Overflow Allows User-Assisted Remote Attacker to Execute Arbitrary Code or to Cause DoS, Medium

Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 17:00
Updated: 08/11/2019 18:13
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (71), 08/11/2019 18:13 (8)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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