Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mapserver
announced via advisory DSA 2285-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202285-1
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mapserver, a CGI-based web framework to publish spatial data and interactive mapping applications.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2011-2703
Several instances of insufficient escaping of user input, leading to SQL injection attacks via OGC filter encoding (in WMS, WFS, and SOS filters).
CVE-2011-2704
Missing length checks in the processing of OGC filter encoding that can lead to stack-based buffer overflows and the execution of arbitrary code.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 5.0.3-3+lenny7.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.5-2+squeeze2.
For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mapserver packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-2703, CVE-2011-2704 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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