Secunia Security Advisory - Niels Heinen has reported a vulnerability in Newspost, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Newspost "socket_getline()" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14092
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Newspost 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4589/
DESCRIPTION:
Niels Heinen has reported a vulnerability in Newspost, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the function
"socket_getline()" in "socket.c". This can be exploited by a
malicious NNTP server to cause a buffer overflow by sending a
specially crafted overly long respond.
Successful exploitation can lead to execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.1.1 and prior.
SOLUTION:
Don't use untrusted NNTP servers.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Niels Heinen
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
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