FreeBSD : leafnode fetchnews denial-of-service triggered by missing header (7b0208ff-3f65-4e16-8d4d-48fd9851f085)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18995

Synopsis

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

Description

Fetchnews could hang when a news article to be downloaded lacked one of the mandatory headers. Found by Joshua Crawford.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18995

File Name: freebsd_pkg_7b0208ff3f654e168d4d48fd9851f085.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:leafnode, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0744

BID: 8541

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