National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3910
Original release date:09/04/2008
Last revised:10/03/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
dns2tcp before 0.4.1 does not properly handle negative values in a certain length field in the input argument to the (1) dns_simple_decode or (2) dns_decode function, which allows remote attackers to overwrite a buffer and have unspecified other impact.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: dns2tcp-dnssimpledecode-dnsdecode-bo(44974)
External Source: BID
Name: 31080
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080904 CVE id request: dns2tcp
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/outils/dns2tcp/index.html.en