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Debian DSA-2238-1 : vino - several vulnerabilities

low Nessus Plugin ID 54588

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Synopsis

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

Description

Kevin Chen discovered that incorrect processing of framebuffer requests in the Vino VNC server could lead to denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the vino packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.28.2-2+squeeze1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/vino

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2238

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 54588

File Name: debian_DSA-2238.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:vino

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0904, CVE-2011-0905

BID: 47681

DSA: 2238