Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting ifax/hylafax package, versions [,4.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IFAXHYLAFAX-2364991
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Sept 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Sep 2005

CVE-2005-3070  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ifax/hylafax to version 4.2.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). HylaFax 4.2.1 and earlier does not create or verify ownership of the UNIX domain socket, which might allow local users to read faxes and cause a denial of service by creating the socket using the hyla.unix temporary file.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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