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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:34:29 +0100
From: Michael Harrison <n0idx80@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: spamdyke buffer overflow vulnerability
Kurt,
Thanks for your extra effort. We greatly appreciate it.
Michael
On 1/23/12 10:53 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 01/20/2012 06:35 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> On 01/20/2012 01:42 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
>>> According to secunia advisory:
>>> https://secunia.com/advisories/47548/ :
>>> Description:
>>>
>>> Some vulnerabilities have been reported in spamdyke, which potentially can be
>>> exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
>>>
>>> The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors related to the incorrect
>>> use of the "snprintf()" and "vsnprintf()" functions, which can be exploited to
>>> cause buffer overflows.
>>>
>>> The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 4.3.0.
>>>
>>>
>>> Solution
>>> Update to version 4.3.0.
>>>
>>>
>>> and from upstream changelog:
>>> http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/Changelog.txt :
>>>
>>> Fixed a number of very serious errors in the usage ofc.
>>> The return value was being used as the length of the string printed into
>>> the buffer, but the return value really indicates the length of the string
>>> that *could* be printed if the buffer were of infinite size. Because the
>>> returned value could be larger than the buffer's size, this meant remotely
>>> exploitable buffer overflows were possible, depending on spamdyke's
>>> configuration.
>>>
>>> and from upstream mailing list:
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/spamdyke-release@spamdyke.org/msg00014.html
>>>
>>> it also fixes a series of major bugs
>>> that could lead to buffer overflows. Depending on spamdyke's configuration,
>>> these could cause remotely exploitable security holes. Please upgrade
>>> immediately!
>>>
>>> Please assign a CVE
>>>
>> Can you include some links to actual code commits? I want to prevent
>> duplicates and more information would aid in that.
>>
> Ugh so I downloaded (www.spamdyke.org/download.html) and diff'ed
> spamdyke 4.2.1 and 4.3.0 and checked for snprint/vsnprintf occurances
> being replaced, there's about 80 (all virtually identical fixes). I also
> checked 4.3.0 to 4.3.1, no more of those fixes, so it's safe to say this
> fix at least is largely confined to the 4.3.0 update.
>
> Please use CVE-2012-0802 for this issue.
>
>
>
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