CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0989

10.0 HIGH Published 2005-03-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-03-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in libXML 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 (libxml2), and possibly other versions, may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long FTP URL that is not properly handled by the xmlNanoFTPScanURL function, (2) a long proxy URL containing FTP data that is not properly handled by the xmlNanoFTPScanProxy function, and other overflows related to manipulation of DNS length values, including (3) xmlNanoFTPConnect, (4) xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost, and (5) xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost.

Affected configurations

• xmlsoft libxml 1.8.17 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.5.11 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.6 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.7 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.8 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.9 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.11 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.12 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.13 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.14 • xmlstarlet command line xml toolkit 0.9.1 • redhat fedora core core 2.0 • trustix secure linux 2.0 • trustix secure linux 2.1 • ubuntu ubuntu linux 4.1

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency weakness

References