CVE-2011-2940 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Stunnel

Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
15.8%
top 5.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 25
Latest updateMay 17

Description

stunnel 4.40 and 4.41 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages1 packages

â–¶NVDstunnel/stunnel4.40, 4.41+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-rww2-jw3v-q88c: stunnel 4↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2011-2940: stunnel 4↗2011-08-25
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CVEList
CVE-2011-2940: stunnel 4↗2011-08-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Red Hat
stunnel: heap corruption flaw in 4.4x leads to remote DoS and possible code execution↗2011-08-18
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Debian
CVE-2011-2940: stunnel4 - stunnel 4.40 and 4.41 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or ...↗2011
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💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2940 stunnel: heap corruption flaw in 4.4x leads to remote DoS and possible code execution↗2011-08-19
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CVE-2011-2940 — Stunnel vulnerability | cvebase