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ubuntu-cve-2012-4436

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2012-10-22 23:55

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

Buffer overflow in the run_last_args function in client/fwknop.c in fwknop before 2.0.3, when processing --last, might allow local users to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via many .fwknop.run arguments.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4436	REPORT
	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/509	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4436	REPORT

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  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:42:47Z"
}

CVE-2012-4436 (GCVE-0-2012-4436)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-10-22 23:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:10

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/19/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/20/4	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.cipherdyne.org/blog/2012/09/software-r…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.cipherdyne.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=fw…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2012-4436 (GCVE-0-2012-4436)

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