Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New xinetd packages fix local denial of service |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-151 | First vendor Publication | 2002-08-13 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2002-08-13 |
| 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 2.1 | Attack Range | Local |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 3.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Solar Designer found a vulnerability in xinetd, a replacement for the BSD derived inetd. File descriptors for the signal pipe introduced in version 2.3.4 are leaked into services started from xinetd. The descriptors could be used to talk to xinetd resulting in crashing it entirely. This is usually called a denial of service. This problem has been fixed by the package maintainer in version 2.3.4-1.2 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 2.3.7-1 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected, since it doesn't contain the signal pipe. We recommend that you upgrade your xinetd packages. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-151 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 151-1 (xinetd) File : nvt/deb_151_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 5063 | xinetd File Descriptor Leak Signal Pipe DoS |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2012-09-06 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2002-053.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-151.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:27:24 |
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