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HistoryJan 21, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

INN: Man-in-the-middle attack

2014-01-2100:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
18

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

59.1%

Background

INN is a news server which can interface with Usenet.

Description

INN’s I/O buffering is not correctly restricted.

Impact

A remote attacker could inject commands into encrypted NNTP sessions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All INN users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-nntp/inn-2.5.3"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallnet-nntp/inn< 2.5.3UNKNOWN

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

59.1%