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Debian DSA-2069-1 : znc - denial of service

low Nessus Plugin ID 47705

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that ZNC, an IRC bouncer, is vulnerable to denial of service attacks via a NULL pointer dereference when traffic statistics are requested while there is an unauthenticated connection.

Solution

Upgrade the znc packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), the problem has been fixed in version 0.058-2+lenny4.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584929

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2069

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 47705

File Name: debian_DSA-2069.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:znc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2448

BID: 40982

DSA: 2069