Debian DSA-035-1 : man2html - remote denial of service

It has been reported that one can tweak man2html remotely into consuming all available memory. This has been fixed by Nicolas Lichtmaier with help of Stephan Kulow. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debi...

CVE-2001-0457

CVE-2001-0457 affects man2html prior to 1.5-22. The Debian security advisory DSA-035-1 and OpenVAS entries warn that remote attackers could trigger a denial of service via memory exhaustion. A patch/update to the affected man2html package is the indicated remediation. The OpenVAS NASL notes the i...

CVE-2001-0457

man2html before 1.5-22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion...