A vulnerability has been identified in Winlpd, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error when handling overly long requests (port 515), which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable systeme or crash an affected application.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Pablo Isola
ChangeLog
2006-07-17 : Initial release
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