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FreeBSD Ports: hylafax

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following package is affected: hylafax CVE-2004-1182 hfaxd in HylaFAX before 4.2.1, when installed with a 'weak' hosts.hfaxd file, allows remote attackers to authenticate and bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted (1) username or (2) hostname that satisfies a regular expression that is matched against a hosts.hfaxd entry without a password.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110546971307585 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/8eabaad9-641f-11d9-92a7-000a95bc6fae.html

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