Stack-based buffer overflow in Meinberg products - CVE-2016-3988

 

Stack-based buffer overflow in Meinberg products - CVE-2016-3988

Published: June 29, 2016 / Updated: November 22, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU56
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3988
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Meinberg
Affected software:
LCES
SyncFire 1100
LANTIME M100
LANTIME M200
LANTIME M400
LANTIME M600
LANTIME M900
IMS-LANTIME M500
IMS-LANTIME M1000

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error while parsing nine different parameters in POST request in function.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-3988

Meinberg has produced a new firmware Version 6.20.004.

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