National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-6089
Original release date:01/04/2013
Last revised:01/04/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the canoniseFileName function in os/pl-os.c in SWI-Prolog before 6.2.5 and 6.3.x before 6.3.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted filename.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/pl.git/commit/a9a6fc8a2a9cf3b9154b490a4b1ffaa8be4d723c
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [swi-prolog] 20121221 [SWIPL] Ann: SWI-Prolog 6.3.7 and 6.2.5
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891577
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20130103 Re: CVE Request - SWI-Prolog / pl (X < 6.2.5): Multiple (stack-based) buffer overflows in patch canonisation code and when expanding file-names with long paths