BNC SARA Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA12348
Release Date: 2004-08-24
Last Update: 2005-10-18
Popularity: 5,163 views

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

Software:BNC SARA

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1728


Description:
Matthias Bethke has reported some vulnerabilities in SARA from British National Corpus, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors in the sarad daemon when parsing traffic from clients. This can be exploited by sending a specially crafted, overly long string to the sarad daemon.

Solution:
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in a fork of the project.

Restrict access to the service.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Matthias Bethke

Changelog:
2005-02-28: Added CVE reference.
2005-10-18: Updated "Solution" section.


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