Executive Summary

Summary
Title New mtr packages fix execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name DSA-1587 First vendor Publication 2008-05-26
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2008-05-26
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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Adam Zabrocki discovered that under certain circumstances mtr, a full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool, could be tricked into executing arbitrary code via overly long reverse DNS records.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.71-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.73-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mtr package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1587

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20385
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20385
Title: DSA-1587-1 mtr - execution of arbitrary code
Description: Adam Zabrocki discovered that under certain circumstances mtr, a full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool, could be tricked into executing arbitrary code via overly long reverse DNS records.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1587-1
CVE-2008-2357
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): mtr
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7244
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7244
Title: DSA-1587 mtr -- buffer overflow
Description: Adam Zabrocki discovered that under certain circumstances mtr, a full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool, could be tricked into executing arbitrary code via overly long reverse DNS records.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1587
CVE-2008-2357
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): mtr
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 51

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-13 Name : SLES10: Security update for mtr
File : nvt/sles10_mtr.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200806-01 (mtr)
File : nvt/glsa_200806_01.nasl
2008-05-27 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1587-1 (mtr)
File : nvt/deb_1587_1.nasl
0000-00-00 Name : Slackware Advisory SSA:2008-210-06 mtr
File : nvt/esoft_slk_ssa_2008_210_06.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
45350 Mtr split.c split_redraw() Function Resolved Hostname Handling Remote Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-07-29 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2008-210-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-02 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_mtr-5289.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-02 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_mtr-5291.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-06-04 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200806-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1587.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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