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GLSA-200509-14 : Zebedee: Denial of Service vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19813

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200509-14 (Zebedee: Denial of Service vulnerability)

 'Shiraishi.M' reported that Zebedee crashes when '0' is received as the port number in the protocol option header.
 Impact :

 By performing malformed requests a remote attacker could cause Zebedee to crash.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Zebedee users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose net-misc/zebedee

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200509-14

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19813

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200509-14.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:zebedee, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2904

BID: 14796

GLSA: 200509-14