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Debian DSA-2145-1 : libsmi - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 51556

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Synopsis

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

Description

Andres Lopez Luksenberg discovered a buffer overflow in the OID parser of libsmi, a library to access SMI MIB data.

Solution

Upgrade the libsmi packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.7+dfsg-0.2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2145

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 51556

File Name: debian_DSA-2145.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/18/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmi, 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: 1/16/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2891

BID: 44276

DSA: 2145