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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.54837
Category:Gentoo Local Security Checks
Title:Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200502-05 (newspost)
Summary:The remote host is missing updates announced in;advisory GLSA 200502-05.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200502-05.

Vulnerability Insight:
A buffer overflow can be exploited to crash Newspost remotely and
potentially execute arbitrary code.

Solution:
All Newspost users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-nntp/newspost-2.0-r1'

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-2005-0101
BugTraq ID: 12418
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12418
Bugtraq: 20050202 RE: SECURITEY.NNOV.RU NewsPost buffer overflow [EXPLOIT] (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746336728781&w=2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-05.xml
http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013056
http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/
http://secunia.com/advisories/14098
XForce ISS Database: newspost-socketgetline-bo(19178)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19178
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