Debian DSA-758-1 : heimdal - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19220

Synopsis

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

Description

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the telnet server from Heimdal, a free implementation of Kerberos 5, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the heimdal packages.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4e-7.woody.10.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.3-10sarge1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-758

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19220

File Name: debian_DSA-758.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2040

DSA: 758