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SuSE 11 / 11.1 Security Update : bogofilter (SAT Patch Numbers 2665 / 2666)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50891

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Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of bogofilter/bogolexer fixes a heap-based buffer underflow vulnerability which could be exploited to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-2494)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 2665 / 2666 as appropriate.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619847

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2494.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50891

File Name: suse_11_bogofilter-100708.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/2/2010

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:bogofilter

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2494