Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CVE-2013-2197
Summary
The Login Security module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.3 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.3 for Drupal, when using the login delay option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of failed login attempts.
- MEDIUM
- NETWORK
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- PARTIAL
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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Advisory Timeline
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