certfr_avis - CERTA-2009-AVI-081

CERTA-2009-AVI-081

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Une vulnérabilité affectant WMware ESX Server permet à une personne malintentionnée d'exécuter du code arbitraire à distance.

Description

Une vulnérabilié affectant l'éditeur de texte en ligne de commande ed intégré dans VMware ESX Server permet à une personne malintentionnée d'exécuter du code arbitraire à distance.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

VMware ESX Server 2.5.5 sans le patch 12 build 142708.

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2008-3916 (GCVE-0-2008-3916)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-04 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:00

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the strip_escapes function in signal.c in GNU ed before 1.0 allows context-dependent or user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: since ed itself does not typically run with special privileges, this issue only crosses privilege boundaries when ed is invoked as a third-party component.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

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    "datePublished": "2008-09-04T18:00:00",
    "dateReserved": "2008-09-04T00:00:00",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-07T10:00:41.119Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.1"
}

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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