CVE-2012-2944: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools NUT before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service electric-power outage via a long string containing non-printable characters...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : nut vulnerability (USN-1456-1)

Sebastian Pohle discovered that Nut did not properly validate its input when receiving data over the network. If upsd was configured to allow connections over the network, a remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service application crash. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

FreeBSD Ports: nut

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. VID 47f13540-c4cb-4971-8dc6-28d0dabfd9cd OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from VID 47f13540-c4cb-4971-8dc6-28d0dabfd9cd Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc...

FreeBSD Ports: nut

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

FreeBSD : nut -- upsd can be remotely crashed (47f13540-c4cb-4971-8dc6-28d0dabfd9cd)

Networkupstools project reports : NUT server upsd, from versions 2.4.0 to 2.6.3, are exposed to crashes when receiving random data from the network. This issue is related to the way NUT parses characters, especially from the network. Non printable characters were missed from strings operation suc...

CVE-2012-2944

Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools NUT before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service electric-power outage via a long string containing non-printable characters...

nut -- upsd can be remotely crashed

Networkupstools project reports: NUT server upsd, from versions 2.4.0 to 2.6.3, are exposed to crashes when receiving random data from the network. This issue is related to the way NUT parses characters, especially from the network. Non printable characters were missed from strings operation such...