Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2484-1 nut

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2484-1 nut -- denial of service

Date Reported:

02 Jun 2012

Affected Packages:

nut

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 675203.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-2944.

More information:

Sebastian Pohle discovered that UPSD, the server of Network UPS Tools (NUT) is vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-1.1squeeze2.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your nut packages.