Summary
The remote host is missing an update to httrack
announced via advisory DSA 1626-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201626-1
Insight
Joan Calvet discovered that httrack, a utility to create local copies of websites, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow potentially allowing to execute arbitrary code when passed excessively long URLs.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.40.4-3.1+etch1.
For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.42.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your httrack package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-3429 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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