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Debian DSA-224-1 : canna - buffer overflow and more

high Nessus Plugin ID 15061

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in canna, a Japanese input system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project identified the following vulnerabilities :

 - CAN-2002-1158 (BugTraq Id 6351): 'hsj' of Shadow Penguin Security discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in the irw_through function in canna server.
 - CAN-2002-1159 (BugTraq Id 6354): Shinra Aida of the Canna project discovered that canna does not properly validate requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or information leak.

Solution

Upgrade the canna packages.

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 3.5b2-46.2.


For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems have been fixed in version 3.5b2-25.2.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-224

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15061

File Name: debian_DSA-224.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:canna, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1158, CVE-2002-1159

BID: 6351, 6354

DSA: 224