CVE-2007-2765
Published May 18, 2007
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- blockhosts.py in BlockHosts before 2.0.3 does not properly parse daemon log files, which allows remote attackers to add arbitrary deny entries to the /etc/hosts.allow file and cause a denial of service by adding arbitrary IP addresses to a daemon log file, as demonstrated by logging in through ssh using a login name containing certain strings with an IP address, which is not properly handled by a regular expression, a related issue to CVE-2006-6301.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.8
- Impact score
- 6.9
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Configurations
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