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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53504
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-678-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'netkit-rwho' package(s) announced via the DSA-678-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'netkit-rwho' package(s) announced via the DSA-678-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
'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, 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.

Affected Software/OS:
'netkit-rwho' package(s) on Debian 3.0.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-1180
Debian Security Information: DSA-678 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-678
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:039
http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/81_i386.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/14309
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