mnews NNTP response remote buffer overflow
| mnews-nntp-response-bo (9226) |  High Risk |
Description:
mnews is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the news client, caused by improper bounds checking on server responses. By sending an overly long 200 response to a vulnerable client, a remote attacker in control of a malicious NNTP server could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
No remedy available as of May 1, 2013.
References:
- Strategic Reconnaissance Team Security Advisory (SRT2002-04-31-1159): Mnews local and remote overflow vulnerabilities.
- Vuln-Dev Mailing list, 2002-05-31 23:37:42: Mnews 1.22 PoC exploit.
- BID-4899: MNews Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
- BID-4900: MNews Server Response Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-0909: Multiple buffer overflows in mnews 1.22 and earlier allow (1) a remote NNTP server to execute arbitrary code via long responses, or local users can gain privileges via long command line arguments (2) -f, (3) -n, (4) -D, (5) -M, or (6) -P, or via long environment variables (7) JNAMES or (8) MAILSERVER.
Platforms Affected:
- Matsushita Research mnews 1.22
Reported:
May 31, 2002
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