Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in nut:
Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools (NUT) before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (electric-power outage) via a long string containing non-printable characters (CVE-2012-2944).
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Affected
nut on Mandriva Linux 2011.0,
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2,
Mandriva Linux 2010.1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-2944 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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