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OpenSLP Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA14561
Release Date: 2005-03-15
Last Update: 2005-03-21
Popularity: 6,663 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:OpenSLP 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-0769


Description:
SUSE Security Team has reported some vulnerabilities in OpenSLP, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to various boundary errors and can be exploited to cause buffer overflows via specially crafted SLP packets.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution:
Update to version 1.2.1.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1730

Provided and/or discovered by:
SUSE Security Team

Changelog:
2005-03-21: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_15_openslp.html


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