critical
10
CWE
119 190
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2009-2281: Buffer Overflow

First published: Fri Oct 23 2009(Updated: )

Multiple heap-based buffer underflows in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c in mapserv in MapServer 4.x through 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.4.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted Content-Length HTTP header or (2) a large HTTP request, related to an integer overflow that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-0840.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
MapServer=4.0
MapServer=4.0-beta1
MapServer=4.0-beta2
MapServer=4.2.0-beta1
MapServer=4.4.0-beta1
MapServer=4.4.0-beta2
MapServer=4.6.0-beta1
MapServer=4.6.0-beta2
MapServer=4.6.0-beta3
MapServer=4.8.0-beta2
MapServer=4.8.0-beta1
MapServer=4.8.0-beta3
MapServer=4.8.0-rc2
MapServer=4.8.0-rc1
MapServer=4.10.0
MapServer=4.10.0-beta1
MapServer=4.10.0-rc1
MapServer=4.10.0-beta3
MapServer=4.10.0-beta2
MapServer=4.10.4
MapServer=4.10.2
MapServer=4.10.1
MapServer=4.10.3
MapServer=5.0.0-beta5
MapServer=5.0.0-beta6
MapServer=5.0.0-beta3
MapServer=5.0.0-beta4
MapServer=5.0.0-beta1
MapServer=5.0.0-beta2
MapServer=5.0.0-rc1
MapServer=5.2.0
MapServer=5.2.0-beta2
MapServer=5.2.0-beta1
MapServer=5.2.0-beta3
MapServer=5.2.0-beta4
MapServer=5.2.0-rc1
MapServer=5.4.0
MapServer=5.4.0-beta1
MapServer=5.4.0-beta2
MapServer=5.4.0-beta4
MapServer=5.4.0-beta3
MapServer=5.4.0-rc2
MapServer=5.4.0-rc1
MapServer=5.4.1
MapServer=4.6.0
MapServer=4.6.0-rc1
MapServer=5.0.0-rc2
MapServer=5.0.0
MapServer=4.4.0
MapServer=4.4.0-beta3

Remedy

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mapserver/mapserver_4.10.0-5.1+etch4.diff.gz

Remedy

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mapserver/mapserver_5.0.3-3+lenny4.diff.gz

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