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[SA10960] Avirt Voice/Soho Long Input Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Avirt Voice/Soho Long Input Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

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TITLE:
Avirt Voice/Soho Long Input Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10960

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/10960/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Avirt Voice 4.x
Avirt Soho 4.x

DESCRIPTION:
Donato Ferrante has reported some vulnerabilities in Avirt Voice and Avirt Soho, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors in some of the services. These can be exploited to cause buffer overflows by sending overly long strings to the services.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in Avirt Voice 4.0 and Avirt Soho 4.3.

SOLUTION:

  • The vulnerabilities will reportedly be fixed in the next releases.

  • Use other products.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Donato Ferrante

For further details and links please click here to see the actual Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/10960/

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