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FreeBSD : junkbuster -- heap corruption vulnerability and configuration modification vulnerability (97edf5ab-b319-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19042

Synopsis

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

Description

A Debian advisory reports :

James Ranson discovered that an attacker can modify the referrer setting with a carefully crafted URL by accidentally overwriting a global variable.

Tavis Ormandy from the Gentoo Security Team discovered several heap corruptions due to inconsistent use of an internal function that can crash the daemon or possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200504-11

http://www.nessus.org/u?fb39f3b1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19042

File Name: freebsd_pkg_97edf5abb31911d9837d000e0c2e438a.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:junkbuster, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:junkbuster-zlib, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1108, CVE-2005-1109

BID: 13146, 13147

DSA: 713