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Debian DSA-2133-1 : collectd - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51181

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that collectd, a statistics collection and monitoring daemon, is prone to a denial of service attack via a crafted network packet.

Solution

Upgrade the collectd packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.4.2-3+lenny1.

This advisory only contains the packages for the alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, s390 and sparc architectures.
The packages for the mipsel architecture will be released soon.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605092

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2133

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51181

File Name: debian_DSA-2133.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2010

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:collectd, 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: 12/13/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4336

BID: 45075

DSA: 2133