Vulnerability CVE-2009-2905
Published: 2009-09-29   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5, 0.51.6, and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request to display a crafted text dialog box.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Fedorahosted -> NEWT 

 References:
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/newt/newt_0.52.2-10+etch1.diff.gz
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100067251
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1894
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36515
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-837-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8556
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9664
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1463.html
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