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mini_httpd -- buffer overflow via snprintf

Affected packages
mini_httpd < 1.23

Details

VuXML ID 84dc49b0-b267-11e5-8a5b-00262d5ed8ee
Discovery 2015-02-10
Entry 2016-01-03

ACME Updates reports:

mini_httpd 1.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via an HTTP request with a long protocol string, which triggers an incorrect response size calculation and an out-of-bounds read.

(rene) ACME, the author, claims that the vulnerability is fixed *after* version 1.22, released on 2015-12-28

References

CVE Name CVE-2015-1548
URL http://acme.com/updates/archive/192.html
URL https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2015-1548