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Debian DSA-966-1 : adzapper - denial of service

high Nessus Plugin ID 22832

Synopsis

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

Description

Thomas Reifferscheid discovered that adzapper, a proxy advertisement zapper add-on, when installed as plugin in squid, the Internet object cache, can consume a lot of CPU resources and hence cause a denial of service on the proxy host.

Solution

Upgrade the adzapper package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain an adzapper package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 20050316-1sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350308

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-966

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22832

File Name: debian_DSA-966.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0046

DSA: 966