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Orb Networks Orb Variant Array Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Orb Networks Orb Variant Array Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0984
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0070
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-25

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Orb Networks Orb, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error when processing the number of dimensions in an array of variant types received as part of an RPC request, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Dyon Balding (Secunia Research).

ChangeLog

2008-03-25 : Initial release

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