Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | buffer overflow in Window Maker |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-074 | First vendor Publication | 2001-08-12 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2001-08-12 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 10 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 10 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Alban Hertroys found a buffer overflow in Window Maker (a popular window manager for X). The code that handles titles in the window list menu did not check the length of the title when copying it to a buffer. Since applications will set the title using untrusted data (for example web browsers will set the title of their window to the title of the web-page being shown) this could be exploited remotely. This has been fixed in version 0.61.1-4.1 of the Debian package, and upstream version 0.65.1. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-074 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 074-1 (wmaker) File : nvt/deb_074_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 1927 | Window Maker wmaker Long Windows Title overflow |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-074.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-31 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2001-074.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:25:27 |
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