NASLDB: Debian DSA-874-1 : lynx - buffer overflow
General
ID: 22740
Name: Debian DSA-874-1 : lynx – buffer overflow
Summary: Checks dpkg output for the updated package
Credits: –
Classification
Risk: –
CVSS: –
CVSS Base Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Temporal Vector: –
Port: 0
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Type: Local
Description
Ulf Härnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in lynx, a text-mode
browser for the WWW that can be remotely exploited. During the
handling of Asian characters when connecting to an NNTP server lynx
can be tricked to write past the boundary of a buffer which can lead
to the execution of arbitrary code.
Exploiting
Exploit Available: –
Exploitability Ease: –
Sources
CVE: CVE-2005-3120
OSVDB: –
Bugtraq: –
scipID: –
Timeline
Vulnerability Disclosure: 2005/10/17
Patch Release: 2005/10/27
Plugin Release: 2006/10/14
Plugin
Version: 1.10
Filename: debian_DSA-874.nasl
Filesize: 3027 bytes
MD5 Hash: bb10cc3d5186035e5f9f8926fb1b6d23
Identification: Host/local_checks_enabled
Require Keys: Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Dependencies: "ssh_get_info.nasl"
Copyright: This script is© 2006-2012 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
- Letzte Plugins
- USN-1611-1 : thunderbird vulnerabilities
- USN-1610-1 : linux vulnerability
- USN-1609-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerability
- SuSE 10 Security Update : PostgreSQL
- RHSA-2012-1364: bind97
- RHSA-2012-1363: bind
- RHSA-2012-1362: thunderbird
- RHSA-2012-1361: xulrunner
- Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : graphicsmagick
- FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin — Multiple XSS due to unescaped HTML output in Trigger, Procedure and Event pages and Fetching the version information from a non-SSL site is vulnerable to a MITM attack