Summary
The remote host is missing an update to bochs
announced via advisory DSA 1351-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201351-1
Insight
Tavis Ormandy discovered that bochs, a highly portable IA-32 PC emulator, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the emulated NE2000 network device driver, which may lead to privilege escalation.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1+20041109-3sarge1.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3-2etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3+20070705-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your bochs packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-2893 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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