Summary
Check the version of libevent
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Andrew Bartlett discovered that libevent
incorrectly handled large inputs to the evbuffer API. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with an application that uses libevent to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Affected
libevent on Ubuntu 14.10 ,
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Detection
Get the installed version with the help of
detect NVT and check if the version is vulnerable or not.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-6272 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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