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FreeBSD : liveMedia -- DoS vulnerability (821afaa2-9e9a-11dc-a7e3-0016360406fa)

high Nessus Plugin ID 29289

Synopsis

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

Description

The live555 development team reports :

Fixed a bounds-checking error in 'parseRTSPRequestString()' caused by an int vs. unsigned problem.

The function which handles the incoming queries from the clients is affected by a vulnerability which allows an attacker to crash the server remotely using the smallest RTSP query possible to use.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/live555x-adv.txt

http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/changelog.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?c730a497

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 29289

File Name: freebsd_pkg_821afaa29e9a11dca7e30016360406fa.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 12/11/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6036

CWE: 20