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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:28:48 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>, Mike Miller <mtmiller@...e.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: openconnect buffer overflow

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On 02/11/2013 12:52 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Kevin Cernekee discovered that a malicious VPN gateway can send a
> very long hostname/path (for redirects) or cookie list (in
> general), which OpenConnect will attempt to write on a fixed length
> buffer.
> 
> Upstream commit:
> 
> <http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/openconnect.git/commitdiff/26f752c3dbf69227679fc6bebb4ae071aecec491>
>
>  This needs a CVE name from 2012.

Please use CVE-2012-6128 for this issue.

It should be noted that this can be executed by a man in the middle
attacker (which is exactly why you're using a VPN Usually =).

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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