CVE-2005-3912

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

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 19 years ago

2005-11-30 11:03:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-03 16:24:00

Affected Software

Debian Debian Linux 3.1

3.1

References

[Dailydave] 20051129 Webmin miniserv.pl format string vulnerability

Patch, Third Party Advisory

17749

Patch, Third Party Advisory

17817

Third Party Advisory

17878

Third Party Advisory

17942

Third Party Advisory

18101

Third Party Advisory

22556

Third Party Advisory

DSA-1199

Third Party Advisory

http://www.dyadsecurity.com/webmin-0001.html

Patch, Third Party Advisory

GLSA-200512-02

Third Party Advisory

MDKSA-2005:223

Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SR:2005:030

Third Party Advisory

20051129 Webmin miniserv.pl format string vulnerability

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

ADV-2005-2660

Third Party Advisory

http://www.webmin.com/changes-1.250.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.webmin.com/security.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.webmin.com/uchanges-1.180.html

Vendor Advisory

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