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Debian DSA-1351-1 : bochs - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 25859

Synopsis

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

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered that bochs, a highly portable IA-32 PC emulator, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the emulated NE2000 network device driver, which may lead to privilege escalation.

Solution

Upgrade the bochs packages.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1+20041109-3sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3-2etch1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1351

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25859

File Name: debian_DSA-1351.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/13/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bochs, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2893

CWE: 119

DSA: 1351