Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New netkit-rwho packages fix denial of service |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-678 | First vendor Publication | 2005-02-11 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2005-02-11 |
| 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
| "Vlad902" discovered a vulnerability in the rwhod program that can be used to crash the listening process. The broadcasting one is unaffected. This vulnerability only affects little endian architectures (i.e. on Debian: alpha, arm, alpha, ia64, i386, mipsel and s390). For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-4woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-8. We recommend that you upgrade your rwhod package. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-678 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Os | 1 | |
| Os | 4 | |
| Os | 2 | |
| Os | 1 | |
| Os | 1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 678-1 (netkit-rwho) File : nvt/deb_678_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 13778 | netkit-rwho rwhod Packet Validation Remote DoS rwho contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered by specially crafted packets which are not validated by the rwhod daemon, and will result in loss of availability for the service. |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2005-02-17 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-039.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-02-14 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-678.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:33:53 |
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