Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Alpha Centauri Software SIDVault, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the login mechanism when processing user-supplied requests, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Affected Products

Alpha Centauri Software SIDVault versions prior to 2.0f

Solution

Upgrade to Alpha Centauri Software SIDVault version 2.0f :
http://www.alphacentauri.co.nz/downloads.htm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2976

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Joxean Koret.

ChangeLog

2007-08-27 : Initial release

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