NASL 'Split' function Buffer overflow

2006.05.02

Credit: OS2A BTO

Risk: Medium

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2006-2093

CWE: CWE-399

CVSS Base Score: 2.6/10

Impact Subscore: 2.9/10

Exploitability Subscore: 4.9/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: High

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: None

Integrity impact: None

Availability impact: Partial

On Apr 25, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Renaud Deraison wrote:

>
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 3:51 AM, OS2A BTO wrote:
>>
>> We have discovered a vulnerability in libnasl of Nessus which can
>> cause Denial of
>> Service. We have attached the advisory which details the  
>> vulnerability and
>> also has the fix. A patch for libnasl 2.2.4 is included.
>
>
> At the opposite of what the full advisory hints, this issue is NOT  
> exploitable.

I meant to say : "not exploitable to execute arbitary code".

-- Renaud

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