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Debian DSA-1600-1 : sympa - dos

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33401

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that sympa, a modern mailing list manager, would crash when processing certain types of malformed messages.

Solution

Upgrade the sympa package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.3-1.2+etch1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475163

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1600

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33401

File Name: debian_DSA-1600.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1648

CWE: 20

DSA: 1600