Executive Summary

Summary
Title INN: Man-in-the-middle attack
Informations
Name GLSA-201401-24 First vendor Publication 2014-01-21
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-01-21
Severity (Vendor) Low Revision N/A

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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in INN's STARTTLS implementation could allow a remote attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack.

Background

INN is a news server which can interface with Usenet.

Description

INN's I/O buffering is not correctly restricted.

Impact

A remote attacker could inject commands into encrypted NNTP sessions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All INN users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-nntp/inn-2.5.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-3523 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3523

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-24.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-24.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 17

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-10-03 Name : Mandriva Update for inn MDVSA-2012:156 (inn)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2012_156.nasl
2012-08-30 Name : FreeBSD Ports: inn
File : nvt/freebsd_inn0.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-600.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-22 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201401-24.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_inn-120905.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-03 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2012-156.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-12 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_inn-8276.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_a7975581ee2611e18bd80022156e8794.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-09 Name : The remote news service allows plaintext command injection while negotiating ...
File : nntp_starttls_plaintext_injection.nasl - Type : ACT_ATTACK

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:38:05
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-22 00:18:28
  • First insertion