Yet Another News Feeder get function buffer overflow
| yanf-get-bo (18615) |  High Risk |
Description:
Yet Another News Feeder (Yanf) is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking in the get function of the src/get.c file. By creating a specially-crafted HTTP response, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with user privileges, once the file is processed by Yanf.
Platforms Affected:
- Yet Another News Feeder (Yanf), Yet Another News Feeder (Yanf) 0.4 and prior
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 29, 2008.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- University of Illinois Chicago Web site, Yanf 0.4 get() overflows buf at http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/yanf.txt.
- Yet Another News Fetcher (Yanf) Web site, Yet Another News Fetcher at http://yanf.sourceforge.net/.
- BID-11975: Yanf HTTP Response Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-1303: Buffer overflow in the get function in get.c for Yanf 0.4 allows remote malicious web servers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP responses.
Reported:
Dec 16, 2004
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