Overview
Some versions of CrazyWWWBoard contain a buffer-overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote user to execute arbitrary code.
Description
CrazyWWWBoard is a binary CGI program that is designed to provide dynamic web bulletin board services on web servers. Versions 2000p4 and 2000LEp5 of CrazyWWWBoard contain a buffer overflow vulnerability resulting from improper handling of the HTTP_USER_AGENT CGI environment variable. |
Impact
A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the web server CGI process. |
Solution
The CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem. |
None. |
Vendor Information
229955
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to teleh0r for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | None |
| Severity Metric: | 4.71 |
| Date Public: | 2001-03-31 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-09-16 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2004-02-23 22:09 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 7 |