CVE-2009-2905 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5 0.51.6 and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request to display a crafted text dialog box.

Reference

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37922 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://secunia.com/advisories/38833 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/newt/newt_0.52.2-10+etch1.diff.gz http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100067251 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1894 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36515 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-837-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A8556 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9664 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1463.html