TITLE:
OpenWBEM Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17176

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17176/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
OpenWBEM 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5891/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenWBEM, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to several unspecified integer
overflows and boundary errors. This may be exploited to execute
arbitrary code with root privileges.

SOLUTION:
Restrict use to within trusted networks only.

Some Linux vendors have released fixed packages.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a SUSE Security Announcement.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SUSE:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2005-Oct/0005.html

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