CVE-2012-4436 (GCVE-0-2012-4436)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-10-22 23:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:10
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Summary
Buffer overflow in the run_last_args function in client/fwknop.c in fwknop before 2.0.3, when processing --last, might allow local users to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via many .fwknop.run arguments.
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