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USN279-1 : libnasl vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary libnasl vulnerability Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : These remote packages are missing security patches : - libnasl-dev - libnasl2 Description : Jayesh KS discovered that the nasl_split() function in the NASL (Nessus Attack Scripting Language) library did not check for a zero-length separator argument, which lead to an invalid memory allocation. This library is primarily used in the Nessus security scanner a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the Nessus daemon to crash. Solution : Upgrade to : - libnasl-dev-2.2.4-1ubuntu0.1 (Ubuntu 5.10) - libnasl2-2.2.4-1ubuntu0.1 (Ubuntu 5.10) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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