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Debian DSA-1998-1 : kdelibs - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44862

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Synopsis

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

Description

Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered a buffer overflow in the internal string routines of the KDE core libraries, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the kdelibs packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1998

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44862

File Name: debian_DSA-1998.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0689

BID: 35510

CWE: 119

DSA: 1998