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CVE request: double-free vulnerability in logsurfer

From: Timo Warns <Warns () Pre-Sense DE>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:02:29 +0200

Gregor Kopf of Recurity Labs GmbH found a double-free vulnerability in
Logsurfer affecting the function prepare_exec(). The vulnerability is caused by
an insufficient treatment of an error condition that is returned by the
function get_word() when it is unable to correctly parse its input.

The following versions of logsurfer are affected:

 Logsurfer 1.5b and previous versions
 Logsurfer+ 1.7 and previous versions

A patch is available at 
http://logsurfer.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=logsurfer/logsurfer;a=commit;h=07983748da9ea3d4954b80f02fed692fe21b1134

Current thread:

CVE request: double-free vulnerability in logsurfer Timo Warns (Oct 17)
- Re: CVE request: double-free vulnerability in logsurfer Marcus Meissner (Oct 17)
  - Re: CVE request: double-free vulnerability in logsurfer Timo Warns (Oct 17)
    - Re: CVE request: double-free vulnerability in logsurfer Josh Bressers (Oct 18)