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CVE-2002-0467: Ecartis: Buffer overflow

CVE-2002-0467 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Ecartis. 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 overflows in Ecartis (formerly Listar) 1.0.0 before snapshot 20020125 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) address_match() of mystring.c or (2) other functions in tolist.c.

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

• Ecartis: 1.0.0_snapshot_2002-01-21
• Listar: 0.126a; 0.127a; 0.129a

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8284.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4176
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/261209
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q1/0063.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-123
• http://www.ecartis.org/