Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2012-2944 First vendor Publication 2012-06-01
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2018-01-05

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools (NUT) before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (electric-power outage) via a long string containing non-printable characters.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2944

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17766
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17766
Title: USN-1456-1 -- nut vulnerability
Description: Nut could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1456-1
CVE-2012-2944
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04
 Product(s): nut
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18196
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18196
Title: DSA-2484-1 nut - denial of service
Description: Sebastian Pohle discovered that UPSD, the server of Network UPS Tools (NUT) is vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2484-1
CVE-2012-2944
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
 Product(s): nut
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-10-03 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201209-19 (nut)
File : nvt/glsa_201209_19.nasl
2012-08-30 Name : Fedora Update for nut FEDORA-2012-8694
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_8694_nut_fc17.nasl
2012-08-10 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2484-1 (nut)
File : nvt/deb_2484_1.nasl
2012-06-15 Name : Fedora Update for nut FEDORA-2012-8729
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_8729_nut_fc16.nasl
2012-06-15 Name : Fedora Update for nut FEDORA-2012-8747
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_8747_nut_fc15.nasl
2012-06-08 Name : Mandriva Update for nut MDVSA-2012:087 (nut)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2012_087.nasl
2012-06-01 Name : Ubuntu Update for nut USN-1456-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1456_1.nasl
2012-05-31 Name : FreeBSD Ports: nut
File : nvt/freebsd_nut.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-539.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_libupsclient1-120604.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-28 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201209-19.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-06-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2484.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-06-22 Name : The remote application is susceptible to a buffer overflow attack.
File : nut_2_6_4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-06-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-8694.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-06-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-8729.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-06-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-8747.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-06-05 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2012-087.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-06-01 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1456-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-05-31 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_47f13540c4cb49718dc628d0dabfd9cd.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53743
CONFIRM http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=313636
http://networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/apis01.html
http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/changeset/3633
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2484
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:087
OSVDB http://www.osvdb.org/82409
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/49348
http://secunia.com/advisories/50389
SUSE https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514634
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75980

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