CVE-2007-0406 Information

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) main function in (a) client.c and the (2) server_setup and (3) server_client_connect functions in (b) server.c in gxine 0.5.9 and earlier allow local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/38320 http://osvdb.org/38321 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=9655&release_id=476891 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0259 http://xinehq.de/index.php/news?show_category_id=1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31604