CVE-2006-4024

Summary

CVECVE-2006-4024
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-08-09 00:04:00 UTC
Updated2011-03-08 02:40:00 UTC
DescriptionThe FESTAHES_Load function in pce/hes.c in Festalon 0.5.0 through 0.5.5 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative LoadAddr value in a HES file, which is used as an offset in a memcpy operation and leads to a buffer underflow.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Festalon Festalon 0.5.0 All All All
Application Festalon Festalon All All All All
Application Festalon Festalon 0.5.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - Festalon HES File Handling Heap Corruption Vulnerability SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Festalon HES Files Remote Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
aluigi.altervista.org/adv/festahc-adv.txt MISC aluigi.altervista.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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