Executive Summary
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| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New perdition packages fix arbitrary code execution |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-1398 | First vendor Publication | 2007-11-05 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2007-11-05 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
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
| Bernhard Mueller of SEC Consult has discovered a format string vulnerability in perdition, an IMAP proxy. This vulnerabilty could allow an unauthenticated remote user to run arbitrary code on the perdition server by providing a specially formatted IMAP tag. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.17-7etch1 For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.15-5sarge1 We recommend that you upgrade your perdition package. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1398 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-134 | Uncontrolled Format String (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17904 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17904 | ||
| Title: | DSA-1398-1 perdition - format string vulnerability | ||
| Description: | Bernhard Mueller of SEC Consult has discovered a format string vulnerability in perdition, an IMAP proxy. This vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote user to run arbitrary code on the perdition server by providing a specially formatted IMAP tag. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | DSA-1398-1 CVE-2007-5740 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 | Product(s): | perdition |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-09-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: perdition File : nvt/freebsd_perdition.nasl |
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1398-1 (perdition) File : nvt/deb_1398_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 42004 | Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy IMAPD IMAP Tag Remote Format String Arbitrary ... |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2007-11-06 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-1398.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2007-11-06 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_617a40218bf011dcbffa0016179b2dd5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2007-11-01 | Name : The remote IMAP server is affected by a format string vulnerability. File : perdition_tag_format_string.nasl - Type : ACT_ATTACK |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 11:26:58 |
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