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ktools VGETSTRING Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA17768
Release Date: 2005-11-28
Last Update: 2005-12-07
Popularity: 6,935 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Unknown
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:ktools 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Mehdi Oudad and Kevin Fernandez have reported a vulnerability in ktools, which has an unknown impact.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "VGETSTRING()" macro when generating the output string using the "vsprintf()" function. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long input string.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Note: All applications that use the Ktools library to create text-mode user interfaces are potentially affected. The actual impact depends on whether the application uses any external data sources to populate the treeview or the verticalmenu control.

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