CVE-2009-0036 (GCVE-0-2009-0036)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-02-11 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:17
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the proxyReadClientSocket function in proxy/libvirt_proxy.c in libvirt_proxy 0.5.1 might allow local users to gain privileges by sending a portion of the header of a virProxyPacket packet, and then sending the remainder of the packet with crafted values in the header, related to use of uninitialized memory in a validation check.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2009-01-27 00:00
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