Title: ISC INN Multiple Insecure Open Call Vulnerabilities
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
The Internet Software Consortium (ISC) Internet News (INN) project is a powerful, mature implementation of a usenet system, including a NNTP server and a newsreading server. It is available for a wide range of Unix based systems, including Linux.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in two components of INN, inews and rnews. Reportedly, both are vulnerable to insecure open() calls in some binaries included with INN. Further details are not currently available.
More recent versions of INN may share these problems, this has not however been confirmed. More recent versions of INN are reported to run with fewer permissions, reducing the privileges which may be gained through exploitation.
This vulnerability was originally part of Bugtraq ID 4501, but has been seperated to identify this particular issue.
Affected Products:
- ISC INN 2.0.0
- ISC INN 2.1.0
- ISC INN 2.2.0
- ISC INN 2.2.1
- ISC INN 2.2.2
- ISC INN 2.2.3
References:
- ISC: INN Homepage
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