pan .nzb files - heap overflow

2008.06.02

Credit: Pavel Polischouk

Risk: Medium

Local: Yes

Remote: No

CVE: CVE-2008-2363

CWE: CWE-119

CVSS Base Score: 9.3/10

Impact Subscore: 10/10

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Medium

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: Complete

Integrity impact: Complete

Availability impact: Complete

Hi,

I discovered a heap overflow in pan affecting the parsing of .nzb files. 
Details (including stack dumps and offending .nzb files) in RedHat 
Bugzilla entry:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446902

Patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=306880

Links to this bug at other project/vendor sites:

GNOME bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535413
Gentoo bugzilla: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224051

Project developers have been notified. CVE issued by Red Hat Security 
Response Team.

Thanks,
Pavel

See this note in RAW Version

Vote for this issue:

50%

Thanks for you vote!

Thanks for you comment!
Your message is in quarantine 48 hours.

Comment it here.

Nick (*)

Email (*)

Video

Text (*)

(*) - required fields.

{{ x.nick }} | Date: {{ x.ux * 1000 | date:'yyyy-MM-dd' }} {{ x.ux * 1000 | date:'HH:mm' }} CET+1

{{ x.comment }}

pan .nzb files - heap overflow

Thanks for you vote!

Thanks for you comment!Your message is in quarantine 48 hours.

Thanks for you comment!
Your message is in quarantine 48 hours.