Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63498
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1731-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ndiswrapper' package(s) announced via the DSA-1731-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ndiswrapper' package(s) announced via the DSA-1731-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Anders Kaseorg discovered that ndiswrapper suffers from buffer overflows via specially crafted wireless network traffic, due to incorrectly handling long ESSIDs. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.28-1+etch1. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.53-2, which was already included in the lenny release. For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.53-2. Affected Software/OS: 'ndiswrapper' package(s) on Debian 4. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 8.3 CVSS Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4395 BugTraq ID: 32118 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32118 http://www.mail-archive.com/frugalware-git@frugalware.org/msg22366.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021142 http://secunia.com/advisories/32509 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2008:057 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00001.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-662-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-662-2 XForce ISS Database: linux-kernel-ndiswrapper-bo(46437) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46437
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