Debian DSA-738-1 : razor - remote denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18630

Synopsis

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

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in the way that Razor parses certain email headers that could potentially be used to crash the Razor program, causing a denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the razor package.

For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.670-1sarge2.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this issue.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-738

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18630

File Name: debian_DSA-738.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2005

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2024

DSA: 738