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Buffer overflow in BSD in.lpd

Vulnerability Assessment Summary Acertains if the remote lpd is bsd-lpd Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment The remote bsd-lpd daemon might be vulnerable to a buffer overflow when sent a too long file name and then asked to show the print queue when the file is being printed. A possible hacker may use this flaw to gain a shell on this host. ** Because of the conditions to positively check for ** this flaw are very hard to meet, this alert might be ** a false positive. Affected systems : BSD/OS (up to 4.1), FreeBSD (up to 4.2), NetBSD (up to 1.5.1), OpenBSD (up to 2.9), SuSE Linux (up to 7.2), SCO Open Server (5.0.6) Solution : Make sure you are running the latest version of the BSD line printer daemon Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: 3252 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Renaud Deraison

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