Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | Updated sympa packages fix DoS vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | MDVSA-2008:133 | First vendor Publication | 2008-07-04 |
| Vendor | Mandriva | Last vendor Modification | 2008-07-04 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | 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 | ||
| Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores | |||
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
| A denial of service condition was discovered in Sympa versions prior to 5.4 that allowed remote attackers to crash the Sympa daemon via a malformed email message (CVE-2008-1648). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:133 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-20 | Improper Input Validation |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18573 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18573 | ||
| Title: | DSA-1600-1 sympa - denial of service | ||
| Description: | It was discovered that sympa, a modern mailing list manager, would crash when processing certain types of malformed messages. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | DSA-1600-1 CVE-2008-1648 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 | Product(s): | sympa |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8082 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8082 | ||
| Title: | DSA-1600 sympa -- dos | ||
| Description: | It was discovered that sympa, a modern mailing list manager, would crash when processing certain types of malformed messages. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | DSA-1600 CVE-2008-1648 | Version: | 3 |
| Platform(s): | Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 | Product(s): | sympa |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 43981 | Sympa Malformed Content-Type Header Handling Remote DoS |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-07-08 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-1600.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-04-01 | Name : The remote web server contains a Perl script that is prone to a denial of ser... File : sympa_5_4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
