National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0585
Original release date:03/14/2009
Last revised:05/15/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in the soup_base64_encode function in soup-misc.c in libsoup 2.x.x before 2.2.x, and 2.x before 2.24, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string that is converted to a base64 representation.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
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: BID
Name: 34100
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090312 [oCERT-2008-015] glib and glib-predecessor heap overflows
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://ocert.org/patches/2008-015/libsoup-CVE-2009-0585.diff
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: libsoup-soupmisc-bo(49273)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-737-1
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090312 [oCERT-2008-015] glib and glib-predecessor heap overflows
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0344
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-015.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:081
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1748
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-088.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35065
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34401
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34337
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34310
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:010