>> CP+ Security Update Fixes Perl Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : CP+ Security Update Fixes Perl Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2828 CVE ID : CVE-2005-3962 - CVE-2005-4261
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-12-12
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in CP+ (cpplus), which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an integer overflow error in Perl that does not properly handle format string specifiers with large values, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2688