Security Advisory SA13114 - MiniShare HTTP "GET" Request Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA13114

MiniShare HTTP "GET" Request Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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SA13114

Release Date

2004-11-08

Last Update

2005-07-26

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

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Solution Status

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Software:

MiniShare 1.x

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CVE-2004-2271 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

class101 has discovered a vulnerability in MiniShare, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling of HTTP "GET" requests. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted overly long request with a pathname larger than 1787 bytes.

Successful exploitation can lead to execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability has been confirmed on version 1.4.1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 1.4.2.
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class101

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