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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2004-0220

High
10/10

Summary

isakmpd in OpenBSD 3.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an ISAKMP packet with a malformed Cert Request payload, which causes an integer underflow that is used in a malloc operation that is not properly handled, as demonstrated by the Striker ISAKMP Protocol Test Suite.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
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CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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