LimeWire Gnutella Disclosure of Sensitive Information
Secunia Advisory: SA14555
Release Date: 2005-03-15
Last Update: 2005-03-21
Popularity: 14,592 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:LimeWire 4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-0788
CVE-2005-0789


Description:
Kevin Walsh has reported two vulnerabilities in LimeWire, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

1) An input validation error in the HTTP handling can be exploited to disclose the content of arbitrary files via a specially crafted request.

Example:
/gnutella/res/[file_with_absolute_path]

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 4.1.2 through 4.5.6.

2) An input validation error in the handling of "magnet" requests can be exploited to disclose the content of arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.

Example:
/magnet10/../../[file]

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 3.9.6 through 4.6.0.

Solution:
Update to version 4.8 or later.
http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

Provided and/or discovered by:
Kevin Walsh

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


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