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| Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.68030 |
| Category: | Mandrake Local Security Checks |
| Title: | Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:181 (ntop) |
| Summary: | Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:181 (ntop) |
| Description: | The remote host is missing an update to ntop announced via advisory MDVSA-2010:181. A vulnerability has been found and corrected in ntop: The checkHTTPpassword function in http.c in ntop 3.3.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an Authorization HTTP header that lacks a : (colon) character in the base64-decoded string (CVE-2009-2732). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. Affected: Corporate 4.0 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2010:181 Risk factor : Medium |
| Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2732 Bugtraq: 20090818 (Reposting truncated message) Re: ntop <= 3.3.10 Basic Authentication Null Pointer Denial of Service (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/505876/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20090818 ntop <= 3.3.10 Basic Authentication Null Pointer Denial of Service (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/505862/100/0/threaded http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:181 http://secunia.com/advisories/36403 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2317 |
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