Fedora Core 2 : cvs-1.11.15-6 (2004-131)

high Nessus Plugin ID 13706

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Stefan Esser discovered a flaw in cvs where malformed 'Entry' lines could cause a heap overflow. An attacker who has access to a CVS server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code under the UID which the CVS server is executing. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0396 to this issue.

This update includes a patch by Derek Price, based on a patch by Stefan Esser, which corrects this flaw.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected cvs and / or cvs-debuginfo packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 13706

File Name: fedora_2004-131.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/23/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cvs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cvs-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2004

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0396

FEDORA: 2004-131

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