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Mathopd Remotely Exploitable Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10385
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Release Date:
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2003-12-08
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Popularity:
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6,478 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Mathopd 1.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Mathopd, allowing malicious people to cause a Denial of Service and possibly execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the function "prepare_reply()" in "request.c".
Versions prior to 1.4p2 are affected.
Solution:
Update to version 1.4p2.
http://www.mathopd.org/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
Michiel Boland
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