Out-of-Bounds Affecting mapserver package, versions [,4.10.4)[5.2.0,5.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.03% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MAPSERVER-2370364
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Mar 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Mar 2009

CVE-2009-1176  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mapserver to version 4.10.4, 5.2.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds mapserv.c in mapserv in MapServer 4.x before 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.2.2 does not ensure that the string holding the id parameter ends in a '\0' character, which allows remote attackers to conduct buffer-overflow attacks or have unspecified other impact via a long id parameter in a query action.

CVSS Base Scores

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