CVE-2008-2654

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the read_client function in webhttpd.c in Motion 3.2.10 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long request to a Motion HTTP Control interface, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow with some combinations of processor architecture and compiler.

Affected products

Lavrsen Motion: through 3.2.10; 3.1.17, 3.1.18, 3.1.19, 3.1.20, 3.2.1, 3.2.2 (+7)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484572
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=121311577731820&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=121314089321816&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=121314329424538&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=121314471626034&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30544
http://secunia.com/advisories/30864
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-02.xml
http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/pub/Motion/ReleaseNoteMotion3x2x10/webhttpd-security.diff
http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/pub/Motion/ReleaseNoteMotion3x2x9/webhttpd-security-video2-backport.diff
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29636
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1796

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