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>> Ktools Library "VGETSTRING" Macro Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Ktools Library "VGETSTRING" Macro Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2605
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3863
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-11-28
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A vulnerability was identified in ktools, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "VGETSTRING" [kkstrtext.h] macro that does not properly validate certain strings before being used in a "vsprintf()" function call, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to cause an application linked with ktools to execute arbitrary code.
Affected Products
Ktools version 0.3 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2605
http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=8480/
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Mehdi Oudad "deepfear" and Kevin Fernandez "Siegfried"
ChangeLog
2005-11-28 : Initial release
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