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FreeBSD Ports: newspost
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: newspost CVE-2005-0101 Buffer overflow in the socket_getline function in Newspost 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string without a newline character.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.html