null pointer dereference vulnerability in 0.1.0-0.8.13.

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 05:22:41PM +0100, Pior Bastida wrote:

> On Monday 26 October 2009 19:46:58 Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > A patch to fix null pointer dereference vulnerability in 0.1.0-0.8.13.
> > The patch is not required for versions 0.8.15+, 0.7.62+, 0.6.39+, 0.5.38+.
> 
> Hello Igor,
> 
> Can you confirm that it's related to this vulnerability? 
> 
> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36839

Yes. However, it's not a buffer overflow as stated there.
The published exploit causes always a null pointer dereference only
and you can not execute arbitrary code as stated there.


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