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Debian Security Advisory DSA 678-1 (netkit-rwho)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to netkit-rwho announced via advisory DSA 678-1.

Insight

Insight

Vlad902 discovered a vulnerability in the rwhod program that can be used to crash the listening process. The broadcasting one is unaffected. This vulnerability only affects little endian architectures (i.e. on Debian: alpha, arm, alpha, ia64, i386, mipsel and s390). For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-4woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-8. We recommend that you upgrade your rwhod package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20678-1

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