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RHEL 2.1 : pine (RHSA-2005:015)

high Nessus Plugin ID 16148

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated Pine package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 to fix a denial of service attack.

Pine is an email user agent.

The c-client IMAP client library, as used in Pine 4.44 contains an integer overflow and integer signedness flaw. An attacker could create a malicious IMAP server in such a way that it would cause Pine to crash. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0297 to this issue.

Users of Pine are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected pine package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2003-0297

https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105294024124163

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:015

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 16148

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-015.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/13/2005

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: 5.8

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pine

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0297

RHSA: 2005:015