FreeBSD : jabberd -- SASL Negotiation Denial of Service Vulnerability (f4af098d-d921-11da-ad4a-00123ffe8333)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21536

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Secunia reports :

A vulnerability has been reported in jabberd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of SASL negotiation. This can be exploited to cause a crash by sending a 'response' stanza before an 'auth' stanza.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21536

File Name: freebsd_pkg_f4af098dd92111daad4a00123ffe8333.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:jabberd, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1329

Secunia: 19281

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