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FreeBSD : dovecot -- denial of service vulnerability (0b53f5f7-ca8a-11e0-aea3-00215c6a37bb)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55913

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Timo Sirainen reports :

Fixed potential crashes and other problems when parsing header names that contained NUL characters.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?007f13d7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55913

File Name: freebsd_pkg_0b53f5f7ca8a11e0aea300215c6a37bb.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Published: 8/20/2011

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1929

BID: 47930