FreeBSD : pine remote denial-of-service attack (5abfee2d-5d82-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 37439

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

An attacker may send a specially-formatted email message that will cause pine to crash.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103668430620531&w=2

http://www.nessus.org/u?670455a0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 37439

File Name: freebsd_pkg_5abfee2d5d8211d880e30020ed76ef5a.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 4/23/2009

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:freebsd:freebsd:iw-pine, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pine, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:zh-pine, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1320