Executive Summary

Summary
Title New version of man2html available
Informations
Name DSA-035 First vendor Publication 2001-03-07
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2001-03-07
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:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

It has been reported that one can tweak man2html remotely into consuming all available memory. This has been fixed by Nicolás Lichtmaier with help of Stephan Kulow.

We recommend you upgrade your man2html package immediately.

wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-035

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 035-1 (man2html)
File : nvt/deb_035_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
5631 man2html Remote DoS

man2html contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is reported to result in consumption of all available memory, causing a loss of availability of the system.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-09-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-035.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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