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Vulnerability Assessment Details

mibiisa overflow

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Searches for the existence of mibiisa

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running mibiisa.

There is a buffer overflow in older versions of
this software, which may permit a possible hacker to gain
a root shell on this host

*** Nessus did not actually check for this vulnerability,
*** so this might be a false positive

Solution : See Sun security bulletin #00219

Networks Security ID: 4932, 4933

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Renaud Deraison

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