Vulnerability CVE-2015-5957

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2015-5957 (CCN-105439)

Assigned:

2015-07-28

Published:

2015-07-28

Updated:

2018-10-30

Summary:

Buffer overflow in the DumpSysVar function in var.c in Remind before 3.1.15 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via a long name.

CVSS v3 Severity:

6.8 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)
5.9 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Changed
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Low Integrity (I): Low Availibility (A): Low

CVSS v2 Severity:

10.0 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Complete Integrity (I): Complete Availibility (A): Complete

4.6 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): Partial

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-119

Vulnerability Consequences:

Gain Access

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2015-5957

Source: SUSE
Type: UNKNOWN
openSUSE-SU-2015:1579

Source: MLIST
Type: Patch
[Remind-Fans] 20150727 Remind 3.1.15 is released

Source: CCN
Type: oss-security Mailing List, Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:26:53 -0400
CVE request - remind 3.1.14 and earlier - buffer overflow

Source: CCN
Type: oss-security Mailing List, Thu, 6 Aug 2015 20:40:58 -0400 (EDT)
Re: CVE request - remind 3.1.14 and earlier - buffer overflow

Source: MLIST
Type: Exploit
[oss-security] 20150728 CVE request - remind 3.1.14 and earlier - buffer overflow

Source: MLIST
Type: Exploit
[oss-security] 20150806 Re: CVE request - remind 3.1.14 and earlier - buffer overflow

Source: BID
Type: UNKNOWN
76099

Source: CCN
Type: BID-76099
Remind 'var.c' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
remind-cve20155957-bo(105439)

Source: CCN
Type: Roaring Penguin Web site
Remind | Roaring Penguin

Source: CCN
Type: WhiteSource Vulnerability Database
CVE-2015-5957

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2:

cpe:/a:roaring_penguin:remind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version <= 3.1.14)

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/a:roaring_penguin:remind:3.1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:20155957	V	CVE-2015-5957	2022-06-30
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:113333	P	remind-3.1.15-1.7 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-01-17
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:106741	P	Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)	2021-11-23
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201559570000000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.	2015-09-28
oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20155957000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - medium.	2015-09-28
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20155957000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium.	2015-09-28
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201559570000000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.	2015-09-28
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20155957000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.	2015-09-28
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20155957000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2015-09-28
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201559570000000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2015-09-28
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20155957000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.	2015-09-28
oval:com.ubuntu.disco:def:201559570000000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) - medium.	2015-09-28
oval:com.ubuntu.precise:def:20155957000	V	CVE-2015-5957 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) - medium.	2015-09-28

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