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Newspost < 2.0-r1 socket_getline Function Remote Overflow

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 2585

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a buffer overflow.

Description

The remote host is using the Newspost NNTP client. Newspost is used to automate the sending of binary files to different NNTP servers. There is a flaw in this version of Newspost that would allow the operator of a malicious news server to create a buffer overflow within the Newspost client. In order to execute this attack, the attacker would need to be able to convince a Newspost user to submit a post to the malicious NNTP server.

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.0-r1 or higher.

See Also

http://newspost.unixcab.org

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 2585

Family: Generic

Published: 2/1/2005

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:W/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:newspost:newspost

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0101

BID: 12418