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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.10522
Category:Gain a shell remotely
Title:LPRng malformed input
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

LPRng seems to be running.

This daemon has a flaw (until version 3.6.24 at least) that would
let anyone to remotely execute arbitrary commands on the server.

*** Nessus could not remotely determine with certainty that the
version of LPRng this machine is running is vulnerable or not.

Solution: Make sure that you are running version 3.6.25 or newer
and filter incoming connections to TCP port 515.

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 1712
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2000-0917
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1712
Bugtraq: 20000925 Format strings: bug #2: LPRng (Google Search)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0293.html
Caldera Security Advisory: CSSA-2000-033.0
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-033.0.txt
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-22.html
FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:56
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:56.lprng.asc
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-065.html
XForce ISS Database: lprng-format-string(5287)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5287
CopyrightThis script is Copyright (C) 2000 Renaud Deraison

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