CVE-2005-3912 Information

Description

Format string vulnerability in miniserv.pl Perl web server in Webmin before 1.250 and Usermin before 1.180 with syslog logging enabled allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the username parameter to the login form which is ultimately used in a syslog call. NOTE: the code execution might be associated with an issue in Perl.

Reference

http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2005-November/002685.html http://secunia.com/advisories/17749 http://secunia.com/advisories/17817 http://secunia.com/advisories/17878 http://secunia.com/advisories/17942 http://secunia.com/advisories/18101 http://secunia.com/advisories/22556 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1199 http://www.dyadsecurity.com/webmin-0001.html http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-02.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:223 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_30_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418093/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2660 http://www.webmin.com/changes-1.250.html http://www.webmin.com/security.html http://www.webmin.com/uchanges-1.180.html