Summary
The remote host is missing an update to ethereal
announced via advisory DSA 258-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20258-1
Insight
Georgi Guninski discovered a problem in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. The program contains a format string vulnerability that could probably lead to execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody3.
For the old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by this problem.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.9-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0081 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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