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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53110
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-410)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libnids' package(s) announced via the DSA-410 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libnids' package(s) announced via the DSA-410 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
A vulnerability was discovered in libnids, a library used to analyze IP network traffic, whereby a carefully crafted TCP datagram could cause memory corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user executing a program which uses libnids (such as dsniff).

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.16-3woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your libnids package.

Affected Software/OS:
'libnids' package(s) on Debian 3.0.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0850
Bugtraq: 20031027 Libnids <= 1.17 buffer overflow (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106728224210446&w=2
Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2003:773
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000773
Debian Security Information: DSA-410 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-410
http://secunia.com/advisories/10543
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