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Alpha Centauri Software SIDVault Login Mechanism Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Alpha Centauri Software SIDVault Login Mechanism Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-2976
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4566
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-08-27

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Alpha Centauri Software SIDVault, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the login mechanism when processing user-supplied requests, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Joxean Koret.

ChangeLog

2007-08-27 : Initial release

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