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Debian: CVE-2017-7938: dmitry -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-7938: dmitry -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/20/2017
Created
09/03/2024
Added
09/02/2024
Modified
10/24/2024

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in DMitry (Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool) version 1.3a (Unix) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long argument. An example threat model is automated execution of DMitry with hostname strings found in local log files.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-dmitry

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