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openSUSE Security Update : netatalk (netatalk-510)

high Nessus Plugin ID 40079

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of netatalk adds a filter for characters of user-supplied data to papd. Prior to this update it was possible to execute arbitrary shell commands remotely. (CVE-2008-5718)

Solution

Update the affected netatalk packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463575

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 40079

File Name: suse_11_0_netatalk-090206.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:netatalk-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:netatalk, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5718

CWE: 78