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Debian DSA-2645-1 : inetutils - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65558

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Synopsis

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

Description

Ovidiu Mara reported in 2010 a vulnerability in the ping util, commonly used by system and network administrators. By carefully crafting ICMP responses, an attacker could make the ping command hangs.

Solution

Upgrade the inetutils packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.6-3.1+squeeze2.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2645

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65558

File Name: debian_DSA-2645.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2529

BID: 41911

DSA: 2645