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Debian DSA-991-1 : zoo - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22857

Synopsis

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

Description

Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux discovered a buffer overflow in zoo, a utility to manipulate zoo archives, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when unpacking a specially crafted zoo archive.

Solution

Upgrade the zoo package.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10-9woody0.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10-11sarge0.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-991

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22857

File Name: debian_DSA-991.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zoo, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0855

BID: 16790

DSA: 991