Vulnerability CVE-2006-2480
Published: 2006-05-19   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Format string vulnerability in Dia 0.94 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering errors or warnings, as demonstrated via format string specifiers in a .bmp filename. NOTE: the original exploit was demonstrated through a command line argument, but there are other mechanisms for input that are automatically processed by Dia, such as a crafted .dia file.

Type:

CWE-134

 (Uncontrolled Format String)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.1/10
6.4/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
DIA -> DIA 

 References:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342111
http://kandangjamur.net/tutorial/dia.txt
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016203
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:093
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0541.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/433313/30/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18078
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1908
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11224
https://usn.ubuntu.com/286-1/
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