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Debian Security Advisory DSA 401-1 (hylafax)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to hylafax announced via advisory DSA 401-1.

Insight

Insight

The SuSE Security Team discovered several exploitable formats string vulnerabilities in hylafax, a flexible client/server fax system, which could lead to executing arbitrary code as root on the fax server. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.1-1.3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.8-1. We recommend that you upgrade your hylafax packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20401-1

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