Description
Nessus before 2.2.8, and 3.x before 3.0.3, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a NASL script that calls split with an invalid sep parameter. NOTE: a design goal of the NASL language is to facilitate sharing of security tests by guaranteeing that a script "can not do anything nasty." This issue is appropriate for CVE only if Nessus users have an expectation that a split statement will not use excessive memory.
References
- 20060425 NASL 'Split' function Buffer overflow Vulnerability mailing-list
- USN-279-1 vendor-advisory
- 20060425 Re: NASL 'Split' function Buffer overflow Vulnerability mailing-list
- 817 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2006-1541 vdb-entry
- 20060425 Re: NASL 'Split' function Buffer overflow Vulnerability mailing-list
- nessus-nasl-split-dos(26034) vdb-entry
- 1015996 vdb-entry
- 25084 vdb-entry