CVE-2005-3912 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-3912
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Description: Format string vulnerability in miniserv.pl Perl web server in Webmin before 1.250 and Usermin before 1.180, with syslog logging enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the username parameter to the login form, which is ultimately used in a syslog call. NOTE: the code execution might be associated with an issue in Perl.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_30_sr.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA17749 Secunia Advisory: SA17817 Secunia Advisory: SA17878 Secunia Advisory: SA18101 Secunia Advisory: SA17942 Secunia Advisory: SA22556 MLIST http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2005-November/002685.html MISC http://www.dyadsecurity.com/webmin-0001.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:223 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-02.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1199 CONFIRM http://www.webmin.com/uchanges-1.180.html http://www.webmin.com/changes-1.250.html http://www.webmin.com/security.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/418093/100/0/threaded

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