Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-4807 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the as_bad function in messages.c in the GNU as (gas) assembler in Free Software Foundation GNU Binutils before 20050721 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .c file with crafted inline assembly code.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Exploit-Db
| description | GNU BinUtils 2.1x GAS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. CVE-2005-4807. Remote exploit for linux platform |
| id | EDB-ID:28397 |
| last seen | 2016-02-03 |
| modified | 2006-08-17 |
| published | 2006-08-17 |
| reporter | Tavis Ormandy |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/28397/ |
| title | GNU BinUtils 2.1x GAS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
Nessus
| NASL family | Ubuntu Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | UBUNTU_USN-336-1.NASL |
| description | A buffer overflow was discovered in gas (the GNU assembler). By tricking an user or automated system (like a compile farm) into assembling a specially crafted source file with gcc or gas, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 27915 |
| published | 2007-11-10 |
| reporter | Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2006-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2007-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/27915 |
| title | Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : binutils vulnerability (USN-336-1) |
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2006-08-24 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | gas (and gcc) make no promise that they are fault tolerant to bad input. We do not plan on producing security updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to correct these bugs. |