Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-1655 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Tinymux 2.4

047910
CVSS 10.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
tinymux
critical
nessus
NVD
Published: 2007-03-24
Updated: 2013-07-23

Summary

Buffer overflow in the fun_ladd function in funmath.cpp in TinyMUX before 20070126 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to lists of numbers.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Tinymux
1

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-1317.NASL
descriptionduskwave discovered that tinymux, a text-based multi-user virtual world server, performs insufficient boundary checks when working with user-supplied data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id25583
published2007-06-27
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/25583
titleDebian DSA-1317-1 : tinymux - buffer overflow
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1317. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(25583);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-1655");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1317");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1317-1 : tinymux - buffer overflow");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"duskwave discovered that tinymux, a text-based multi-user virtual
world server, performs insufficient boundary checks when working with
user-supplied data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary
code."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1317"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the tinymux package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.3.31-1etch1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tinymux");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/06/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/06/27");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"tinymux", reference:"2.4.3.31-1etch1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

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