CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-6181
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-11-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in cygwin1.dll in Cygwin 1.5.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a filename with a certain length, as demonstrated by a remote authenticated user who uses the SCP protocol to send a file to the Cygwin machine, and thereby causes scp.exe on this machine to execute, and then overwrite heap memory with characters from the filename. NOTE: it is also reported that a related issue might exist in 1.5.7 through 1.5.19.
Affected configurations
• redhat cygwin (<= 1.5.19)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-11/msg00005.html Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-11/msg00024.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-11/msg00026.html Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3406 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484153/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26557 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-11/msg00005.html Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-11/msg00024.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-11/msg00026.html Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3406 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484153/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26557 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry