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Gentoo FoundationGLSA-200311-08

HistoryNov 22, 2003 - 12:00 a.m.

Libnids: remote code execution vulnerability

2003-11-2200:00:00

Gentoo Foundation

security.gentoo.org

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.035 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.5%

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Background

Libnids is a component of a network intrusion detection system.

Description

There is a bug in the part of libnids code responsible for TCP reassembly. The flaw probably allows remote code execution.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-libs/libnids update their systems as follows:

 # emerge sync
 # emerge -pv '&gt;=net-libs/libnids-1.18'
 # emerge '&gt;=net-libs/libnids-1.18'
 # emerge clean

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallnet-libs/libnids<= 1.17UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Gentoo	any	all	net-libs/libnids	<= 1.17	UNKNOWN

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.035 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.5%

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