National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2363
Original release date:06/02/2008
Last revised:02/05/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The PartsBatch class in Pan 0.132 and earlier does not properly manage the data structures for Parts batches, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .nzb file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (06/03/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of pan as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. No other versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have shipped Pan.
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External Source: BID
Name: 29421
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080529 CVE-2008-2363: pan - heap overflow
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535413
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224051
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446902
External Source: XF
Name: pan-nzb-bo(42750)
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:013
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:201
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200807-15
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31315
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30717
Type: Advisory