CVE-2007-5037

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5037
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-09-24 00:17:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in the inotifytools_snprintf function in src/inotifytools.c in the inotify-tools library before 3.11 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Inotify Inotify-tools All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fedora update for inotify-tools - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
osvdb.org/40563 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Debian update for inotify-tools - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
inotify-tools C Library inotifytools_snfprintf() Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
SourceForge.net: Files af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
inotify-tools "inotifytools_snprintf()" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
#443913 - CVE-2007-5037 buffer overflow in inotifytools_snprintf - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1440-1 inotify-tools af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
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