CVE-2004-1485

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in the TFTP client in InetUtils 1.4.2 allows remote malicious DNS servers to execute arbitrary code via a large DNS response that is handled by the gethostbyname function.

Buffer overflow in the TFTP client in InetUtils 1.4.2 allows remote malicious DNS servers to execute arbitrary code via a large DNS response that is handled by the gethostbyname function.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

GNU InetUtils 1.4.2

1.4.2

References

20041026 inetutils tftp client, DNS resolving bofs

11527

inetutils-tftp-dns-bo(17878)

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