Executive Summary

Summary
Title w3c-libwww vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-220-1 First vendor Publication 2005-12-01
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2005-12-01
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

The following packages are affected:

libwww0

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 5.4.0-9ubuntu0.4.10 (for Ubuntu 4.10), 5.4.0-9ubuntu0.5.04 (for Ubuntu 5.04), or 5.4.0-9ubuntu0.5.10 (for Ubuntu 5.10). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Sam Varshavchik discovered several buffer overflows in the HTBoundary_put_block() function. By sending specially crafted HTTP multipart/byteranges MIME messages, a malicious HTTP server could trigger an out of bounds memory access in the libwww library, which causes the program that uses the library to crash.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-220-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9653
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9653
Title: The HTBoundary_put_block function in HTBound.c for W3C libwww (w3c-libwww) allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted multipart/byteranges MIME message that triggers an out-of-bounds read.
Description: The HTBoundary_put_block function in HTBound.c for W3C libwww (w3c-libwww) allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted multipart/byteranges MIME message that triggers an out-of-bounds read.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-3183
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
19952 W3C Libwww Multipart MIME Data Handling DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-11-30 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_18449f92ab3911e68011005056925db4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0208.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-29 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2007-0208.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20070501_w3c_libwww_on_SL4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-05-02 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2007-0208.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-21 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-220-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-210.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-10-11 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-952.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-10-11 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-953.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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