Vulnerability CVE-2005-2409
Published: 2005-08-01   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Format string vulnerability in util.c in nbsmtp 0.99 and earlier, while running in debug mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers that are not properly handled in a syslog call.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Nbsmtp -> Nbsmtp 

 References:
http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/nbsmtp-20050726.txt
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/debbb39c-fdb3-11d9-a30d-00b0d09acbfc.html
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21674
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14441
http://secunia.com/advisories/16324
http://secunia.com/advisories/16279
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