Buffer overflow in Red Hat Cygwin
CVE-2007-6181
Heap-based buffer overflow in cygwin1.dll in Cygwin 1.5.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a filename with a certain length, as demonstrated by a remote authenticated user who uses the SCP protocol to send a file to the Cygwin machine, and thereby causes scp.exe on this machine to execute, and then overwrite heap memory with characters from the filename. NOTE: it is also reported that a related issue might exist in 1.5.7 through 1.5.19.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 8.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.056 (92.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 92.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.056 · newest: 0.056 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-11/msg00026.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484153/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-11/msg00024.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3406 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/26557 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-11/msg00005.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, Patch)