FreeBSD : znc -- Denial of Service (b22d6d4c-53b9-11e9-9310-28d244aee256)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123539

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Mitre reports :

ZNC before 1.7.3-rc1 allows an existing remote user to cause a Denial of Service (crash) via invalid encoding.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://wiki.znc.in/ChangeLog/1.7.3

http://www.nessus.org/u?67f880c9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123539

File Name: freebsd_pkg_b22d6d4c53b911e9931028d244aee256.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 4/1/2019

Updated: 6/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9917

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:znc, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9917