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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-3183

Original release date:10/12/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The HTBoundary_put_block function in HTBound.c for W3C libwww (w3c-libwww) allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted multipart/byteranges MIME message that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/07/2007)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170518 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3 which are in maintenance mode.

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159597
Type: Advisory
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-220-1
External Source: BID
Name: 15035
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2005-952
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2005-953
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0208
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25098
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19193
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17814
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17489
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17122
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17119
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2005:210
External Source: SCO
Name: SCOSA-2006.10
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2005:210

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