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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61781
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1659-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libspf2' package(s) announced via the DSA-1659-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libspf2' package(s) announced via the DSA-1659-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Dan Kaminsky discovered that libspf2, an implementation of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) used by mail servers for mail filtering, handles malformed TXT records incorrectly, leading to a buffer overflow condition (CVE-2008-2469).

Note that the SPF configuration template in Debian's Exim configuration recommends to use libmail-spf-query-perl, which does not suffer from this issue.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.5-4+etch1.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.5.dfsg-5+lenny1.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your libspf2 package.

Affected Software/OS:
'libspf2' package(s) on Debian 4.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
10.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2469
BugTraq ID: 31881
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31881
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#183657
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/183657
Debian Security Information: DSA-1659 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1659
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6805
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200810-03.xml
http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1263
http://www.doxpara.com/?page_id=1256
http://secunia.com/advisories/32396
http://secunia.com/advisories/32450
http://secunia.com/advisories/32496
http://secunia.com/advisories/32720
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4487
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2896
XForce ISS Database: libspf2-dnstxtrecord-bo(46055)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46055
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG

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