CVE-2007-5037 (GCVE-0-2007-5037)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:17
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the inotifytools_snprintf function in src/inotifytools.c in the inotify-tools library before 3.11 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://osvdb.org/40563 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/27616 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?rele… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25724 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443913 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/28221 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1440 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/26825 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2007-09-18 00:00
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