Vulnerability Note VU#759020

ISC InterNetNews (INN) contains buffer overflow in ARTpost() function

Overview

The Internet Software Consortium's (ISC) InterNetNews (INN) is a Usenet application. A vulnerability in INN may permit a remote attacker to compromise the system.

I. Description

Version 2.4.0 of ISC's InterNetNews package contains a Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server that contains a buffer overflow condition. Versions 2.3.x and prior are not vulnerable to this issue. The vulnerability is in the code that processes control messages, specifically the ARTpost() function.

II. Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable server with the privileges of the innd process.

III. Solution

Upgrade to version 2.4.1.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Internet Software Consortium	Vulnerable	15-Jan-2004

References

http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10578/

Credit

Thanks to Russ Allbery for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Jason A Rafail.

Other Information

Date Public:	2004-01-07
Date First Published:	2004-01-15
Date Last Updated:	2004-01-16
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):
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Metric:	17.72
Document Revision:	16

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