CVE-2012-4436

2022-10-0316:15:34

redhat

www.cve.org

buffer overflow

fwknop

denial of service

arbitrary code

cve-2012-4436

7.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

Buffer overflow in the run_last_args function in client/fwknop.c in fwknop before 2.0.3, when processing --last, might allow local users to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via many .fwknop.run arguments.

References

www.cipherdyne.org/blog/2012/09/software-release-fwknop-2.0.3.html

www.cipherdyne.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=fwknop.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a60f05ad44e824f6230b22f8976399340cb535dc

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/19/2

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/20/4