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GLSA-200904-13 : Ventrilo: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36157

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200904-13 (Ventrilo: Denial of Service)

 Luigi Auriemma reported a NULL pointer dereference in Ventrilo when processing packets with an invalid version number followed by another packet.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to the server, resulting in a crash.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Ventrilo users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=media-sound/ventrilo-server-bin-3.0.3'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200904-13

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36157

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200904-13.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 4/15/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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:gentoo:linux:ventrilo-server-bin, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3680

CWE: 20

GLSA: 200904-13