CVE-2006-2093

high

Description

Nessus before 2.2.8, and 3.x before 3.0.3, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a NASL script that calls split with an invalid sep parameter. NOTE: a design goal of the NASL language is to facilitate sharing of security tests by guaranteeing that a script "can not do anything nasty." This issue is appropriate for CVE only if Nessus users have an expectation that a split statement will not use excessive memory.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/279-1/

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26034

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1541

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431994/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431993/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431987/100/0/threaded

http://www.osvdb.org/25084

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015996

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/817

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-04-29

Updated: 2018-10-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High