Vulnerability CVE-2007-5037
Published: 2007-09-23   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Buffer overflow in the inotifytools_snprintf function in src/inotifytools.c in the inotify-tools library before 3.11 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Inotify -> Inotify-tools 

 References:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26825
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=540277&group_id=171752
http://osvdb.org/40563
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00228.html
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/36687
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25724
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1440
http://secunia.com/advisories/28221
http://secunia.com/advisories/27616
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443913
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