Solaris mibiisa MIB Parsing Remote Overflow

critical Nessus Plugin ID 11335

Synopsis

The remote host contains a program that may be prone to a buffer overflow attack.

Description

The remote host is running mibiisa.

There is a buffer overflow in older versions of this software, which may allow an attacker to gain a root shell on this host.

Note that Nessus did not actually check for this vulnerability so this might be a false positive.

Solution

Apply the appropriate patch referenced in Sun's advisory.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/Jun/17

http://www.nessus.org/u?04427d11

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 11335

File Name: mibiisa_overflow.nasl

Version: 1.30

Type: remote

Family: SNMP

Published: 3/9/2003

Updated: 11/15/2018

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-0797

BID: 4933