Debian DSA-2442-2 : openarena - UDP traffic amplification

high Nessus Plugin ID 58485

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Synopsis

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

Description

It has been discovered that spoofed 'getstatus' UDP requests are being sent by attackers to servers for use with games derived from the Quake 3 engine (such as openarena). These servers respond with a packet flood to the victim whose IP address was impersonated by the attackers, causing a denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the openarena packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.5-5+squeeze3.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58485

File Name: debian_DSA-2442.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/27/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openarena, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-5077

BID: 52719

DSA: 2442

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