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GLSA-202208-18 : Motion: Denial of service

high Nessus Plugin ID 164045

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202208-18 (Motion: Denial of service)

 - A Denial of Service condition in Motion-Project Motion 3.2 through 4.3.1 allows remote unauthenticated users to cause a webu.c segmentation fault and kill the main process via a crafted HTTP request.
 (CVE-2020-26566)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All Motion users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=media-video/motion-4.3.2

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-18

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760714

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164045

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202208-18.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 8/11/2022

Updated: 10/16/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26566

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:motion, 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: 8/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26566