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Title : HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Finger Format String Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2463
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3940 - CVE-2008-3946
CWE ID : CWE-189
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-09-01

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A vulnerability has been identified in HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a format string error when processing malformed ".plan" or ".project" files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected system or execute arbitrary code.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Claes Nyberg, Christer Oberg and James Tusini.

ChangeLog

2008-09-01 : Initial release

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