Zabbix < 1.6.6 Null Pointer Dereference DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5268

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to denial-of-service attack.

Description

The remote host is running Zabbix, an IT monitoring service. The installed version of Zabbix is earlier than 1.6.6. Such versions are potentially affected by a Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the 'process_trap()' function of the 'zabbix_server/trapper/trapper.c' source file. An attacker can exploit this flaw to crash the affected service.

Solution

Upgrade to Zabbix 1.6.6 or later.

See Also

http://www.zabbix.com/rn1.6.6.php

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5268

Family: Generic

Published: 12/17/2009

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:zabbix:zabbix

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2009

Reference Information

BID: 37308