CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2900
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-08-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) put_dir function in mongoose.c in Mongoose 3.0, (2) put_dir function in yasslEWS.c in yaSSL Embedded Web Server (yasslEWS) 0.2, and (3) _shttpd_put_dir function in io_dir.c in Simple HTTPD (shttpd) 1.42 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP PUT request, as exploited in the wild in 2011.
Affected configurations
• shttpd shttpd 1.42
• valenok mongoose 3.0
• yassl yasslews 0.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065273.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065505.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065537.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45464 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45902 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8337 securityreason.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/03/5 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/03/9 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48980 www.securityfocus.com
- https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/source/detail?r=556f4de91eae4bac40dc5d4ddbd9ec7c424711d0 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68991 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065273.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065505.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065537.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45464 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45902 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8337 securityreason.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/03/5 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/03/9 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48980 www.securityfocus.com
- https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/source/detail?r=556f4de91eae4bac40dc5d4ddbd9ec7c424711d0 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68991 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com