CVE-2015-2675

The OAuth implementation in librest before 0.7.93 incorrectly truncates the pointer returned by the rest_proxy_call_get_url function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via running the EnsureCredentials method from the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts.Account interface on an object representing a Flickr account.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2017-08-18

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Librest (Gnome)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2237.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/23/8
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742644
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183982
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199049
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/librest/commit/?id=b50ace7738ea03817acdad87fb2b338a86018329