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InterNetNews Control Message Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10578
Release Date: 2004-01-08
Last Update: 2004-01-15
Popularity: 7,880 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:InterNetNews (INN) 2.x

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Description:
Dan Riley has discovered a vulnerability in InterNetNews (INN), which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "ARTpost()" function during the handling of control messages. This can result in a buffer overflow when filing these into per-type newsgroups.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code on a vulnerable system with the privileges of innd.

The vulnerability affects version 2.4.0 and STABLE snapshots. The 2.3.x branch and prior are not affected.

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