FreeBSD Ports: newsfetch

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. VID 76e0b133-6bfd-11d9-a5df-00065be4b5b6 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from vuxml or freebsd advisories Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc...

FreeBSD Ports: newsfetch

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

FreeBSD : newsfetch -- server response buffer overflow vulnerability (76e0b133-6bfd-11d9-a5df-00065be4b5b6)

The newsfetch program uses the sscanf function to read information from server responses into static memory buffers. Unfortunately this is done without any proper bounds checking. As a result long server responses may cause an overflow when a newsgroup listing is requested from an NNTP server...

[SA14094] newsfetch NNTP Response Handling Buffer Overflows

TITLE: newsfetch NNTP Response Handling Buffer Overflows SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA14094 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/14094/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: System access WHERE: From remote SOFTWARE: newsfetch 1.x http://secunia.com/product/4591/ DESCRIPTION: Niels Heinen has...

CVE-2005-0132: newsfetch NNTP responses buffer overflow

Affected software: newsfetch (FreeBSD ports). Vulnerability: buffer overflow in handling NNTP server responses due to using sscanf without proper bounds checking, enabling overflow on long LIST responses. Impact (as stated): crash or potential arbitrary code execution on the system. Exploitation ...