Users of LibSMI please be advised of a smiGetNode Buffer Overflow vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
CORE-2010-0819: [CORE-2010-0819] LibSMI smiGetNode Buffer Overflow When Long OID Is Given In Numerical Form
*Vulnerability Description*
A statically allocated buffer is overwritter in the case that a very
long Object Identifier is specified in stringified dotted notation to
the smiGetNode function of libsmi[1]. This may result in arbitraty
code execution by cleverly overwriting key pointers in memory.Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/atJenj
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