Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : nut vulnerability (USN-1456-1)

Sebastian Pohle discovered that Nut did not properly validate its input when receiving data over the network. If upsd was configured to allow connections over the network, a remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service application crash. Note that Tenable Network Security has...