FreeBSD : cscope -- Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (74ff10f6-520f-11db-8f1a-000a48049292)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22517

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Secunia reports :

Will Drewry has reported some vulnerabilities in Cscope, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Various boundary errors within the parsing of file lists or the expansion of environment variables can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when parsing specially crafted 'cscope.lists' files or directories.

A boundary error within the parsing of command line arguments can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when supplying an overly long 'reffile' argument.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?445bed66

http://www.nessus.org/u?7b663ae8

http://www.nessus.org/u?acfcdb70

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22517

File Name: freebsd_pkg_74ff10f6520f11db8f1a000a48049292.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 10/10/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:cscope, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4262

BID: 19686, 19687

Secunia: 21601