FreeBSD : dircproxy -- remote denial of service (a1ef3fc0-8ad0-11dc-9490-0016179b2dd5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27622

Synopsis

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

Description

Securiweb reports :

dircproxy allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via an ACTION command without a parameter, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated using a blank /me message from irssi.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.hotelmarseille.org/fr/securiweb.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319301

http://www.nessus.org/u?74de020f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27622

File Name: freebsd_pkg_a1ef3fc08ad011dc94900016179b2dd5.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 11/5/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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:freebsd:freebsd:dircproxy, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:dircproxy-devel, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5226

CWE: 20