FreeBSD : libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability (107e2ee5-f941-11da-b1fa-020039488e34)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21700

Synopsis

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

Description

A Secunia Advisory reports :

Federico L. Bossi Bonin has discovered a weakness in xine-lib, which can be exploited by malicious people to crash certain applications on a user's system.

The weakness is cause due to a heap corruption within the 'xineplug_inp_http.so' plugin when handling an overly large reply from the HTTP server. This can be exploited to crash an application that uses the plugin (e.g. gxine).

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21700

File Name: freebsd_pkg_107e2ee5f94111dab1fa020039488e34.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 6/16/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2802

BID: 18187

Secunia: 20369

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