Nessus multiple unknown vulnerabilities in NASL and libnessus
| nessus-nasl-libnessus (12386) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Nessus contains multiple unknown vulnerabilities in several functions in the Nessus Attack Scripting Language (NASL) script and the libnessus libraries package.
Note: It is reported that these vulnerabilities are similar to the vulnerabilities described in security issues 12057, 12058, and 12059.
Platforms Affected:
- Tenable Network Security, Nessus prior to 2.0.6
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Nessus (2.0.6 or later), available from the Nessus FTP site. See References.
Consequences:
Other
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu May 22 2003 - 15:44:59 CDT, Potential security vulnerability in Nessus at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-05/0243.html.
- Nessus FTP site, Index of /nessus at http://ftp.nessus.org/nessus/.
- BID-7664: Nessus LibNASL Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2003-0374: Multiple unknown vulnerabilities in Nessus before 2.0.6, in libnessus and possibly libnasl, a different set of vulnerabilities than those identified by CVE-2003-0372 and CVE-2003-0373, aka similar issues in other nasl functions as well as in libnessus.
Reported:
Not available
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