CVE-2005-3912 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-3912 at MITRE

Description

Format string vulnerability in miniserv.pl Perl web server in Webmin before 1.250 and Usermin before 1.180, with syslog logging enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the username parameter to the login form, which is ultimately used in a syslog call. NOTE: the code execution might be associated with an issue in Perl.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 135832 [CLOSED / FIXED], 136360 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:030, published Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:31:15 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:43 2025