CVE-2016-20043

Summary

NRSS RSS Reader 0.3.9-1 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an oversized argument to the -F parameter. Attackers can craft a malicious input with 256 bytes of padding followed by a controlled EIP value to overwrite the return address and achieve code execution.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39810
• http://www.codezen.org/nrss/
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nrss-rss-reader-1-stack-buffer-overflow

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