Mark Cox has reported a vulnerability in ZoneMinder, potentially allowing malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of query strings. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted query. Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary code. All versions prior to 1.19.2 are affected.
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TITLE:
Zoneminder Query String Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11604
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/11604/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
ZoneMinder 1.x
DESCRIPTION:
Mark Cox has reported a vulnerability in ZoneMinder, potentially
allowing malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
handling of query strings. This can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow via a specially crafted query.
Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary
code.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.19.1 and prior.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.19.2.
https://www.zoneminder.com/downloads.html
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Mark Cox
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.zoneminder.com/fileadmin/downloads/README-1.19.3.html
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