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Debian DSA-2183-1 : nbd - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 52550

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered a regression of a buffer overflow (CVE-2005-3534 ) in NBD, the Network Block Device server, that could allow arbitrary code execution on the NBD server via a large request.

Solution

Upgrade the nbd packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.9.11-3lenny1.

The stable distribution (squeeze), the testing distribution (wheezy), and the unstable distribution (sid) are not affected. This problem was fixed prior the release of squeeze in version 1:2.9.16-8.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-3534

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2183

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 52550

File Name: debian_DSA-2183.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0530

BID: 46572

DSA: 2183