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Debian DSA-211-1 : micq - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15048

Synopsis

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

Description

Rudiger Kuhlmann, upstream developer of mICQ, a text based ICQ client, discovered a problem in mICQ. Receiving certain ICQ message types that do not contain the required 0xFE separator causes all versions to crash.

Solution

Upgrade the micq package.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.9-0woody3.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.3-4.1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-211

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15048

File Name: debian_DSA-211.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:micq, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1362

DSA: 211