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RHEL 2.1 : kon2 (RHSA-2003:050)

high Nessus Plugin ID 12363

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A buffer overflow in kon2 allows local users to obtain root privileges.

KON is a Kanji emulator for the console. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the command line parsing code portion of the kon program up to and including version 0.3.9b. This vulnerability, if appropriately exploited, can lead to local users being able to gain escalated (root) privileges.

All users of kon2 should update to these errata packages which contain a patch to fix this vulnerability.

Red Hat would like to thank Janusz Niewiadomski for notifying us of this issue.

Solution

Update the affected kon2 and / or kon2-fonts packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2002-1155

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003:050

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 12363

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2003-050.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kon2-fonts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kon2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1155

RHSA: 2003:050