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CVE-2001-0207: Pierre Beyssac Bing: Command injection

CVE-2001-0207 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Pierre Beyssac Bing. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Buffer overflow in bing allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long hostname, which is copied to a small buffer after a reverse DNS lookup using the gethostbyaddr function.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
• Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
• Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
• Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
• Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
• Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

• Pierre Beyssac Bing: up to and including 1.0.4

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2279
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-01/0330.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6036