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CVE-2012-2944

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2012-05-30 nut -- upsd can be remotely crashed

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2012-2944
Phase Assigned(20120529)

Description

Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools (NUT) before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (electric-power outage) via a long string containing non-printable characters.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=313636
CONFIRM http://networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/apis01.html
CONFIRM http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/changeset/3633
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2012:087
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1069
BID 53743
OSVDB 82409
SECUNIA 49348
SECUNIA 50389
XF networkupstools-addchar-bo(75980)