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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdenetwork (MDKSA-2002:080)

high Nessus Plugin ID 13978

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The SuSE security team discovered two vulnerabilities in the KDE lanbrowsing service during an audit. The LISa network daemon and 'reslisa', a restricted version of LISa are used to identify servers on the local network by using the URL type 'lan://' and 'rlan://' respectively. A buffer overflow was discovered in the lisa daemon that can be exploited by an attacker on the local network to obtain root privilege on a machine running the lisa daemon. Another buffer overflow was found in the lan:// URL handler, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain access to the victim user's account.

Only Mandrake Linux 9.0 comes with the LISa network daemon; all previous versions do not contain the network daemon and are as such not vulnerable.

Solution

Update the affected kdenetwork, kdenetwork-devel and / or lisa packages.

See Also

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021111-2.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 13978

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2002-080.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 7/31/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:kdenetwork, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:kdenetwork-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lisa, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1247, CVE-2002-1306

MDKSA: 2002:080