Summary
The remote host is missing an update to neon
announced via advisory DSA 506-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20506-1
Insight
Stefan Esser discovered a problem in neon, an HTTP and WebDAV client library. User input is copied into variables not large enough for all cases. This can lead to an overflow of a static heap variable.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.19.3-2woody5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.23.9.dfsg-2 and neon_0.24.6.dfsg-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libneon* packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2004-0398 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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