FreeBSD : gaim -- MSN remote DoS vulnerability (ad5e70bb-c429-11d9-ac59-02061b08fc24)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19077

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The GAIM team reports :

Potential remote denial of service bug resulting from not checking a pointer for non-NULL before passing it to strncmp, which results in a crash. This can be triggered by a remote client sending an SLP message with an empty body.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19077

File Name: freebsd_pkg_ad5e70bbc42911d9ac5902061b08fc24.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ko-gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ru-gaim, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1262

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