SocksCap Stack Overflow (<= 2.40-051231)

2008.01.22
Credit: azizov itdefence ru
Risk: Medium
Local: Yes
Remote: No
CVE: CVE-2008-0378
CWE: CWE-119


CVSS Base Score: 6.8/10
Impact Subscore: 6.4/10
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: Partial
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: Partial

ITDEFENCE.ru Security Advisory SocksCap Stack Overflow Verisons <= 2.40-051231. No length check in hostname during resolving of remote resourse. If the hostsname's name is more then 692 bytes, failure of a stack is possible. Works if name resolution *(Resolve all names remotely) option is turned on.


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