Summary
The remote host is missing an update to canna
announced via advisory DSA 224-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20224-1
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in canna, a Japanese input system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project identified the following vulnerabilities:
* CVE-2002-1158 (BugTraq Id 6351): hsj of Shadow Penguin Security discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in the irw_through function in canna server.
* CVE-2002-1159 (BugTraq Id 6354): Shinra Aida of the Canna project discovered that canna does not properly validate requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or information leak.
For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 3.5b2-46.2.
For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems have been fixed in version 3.5b2-25.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 3.6p1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your canna packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2002-1158, CVE-2002-1159 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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