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RHEL 4 : nasm (RHSA-2005:381)

high Nessus Plugin ID 18196

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:381 advisory.

 NASM is an 80x86 assembler.

 Two stack based buffer overflow bugs have been found in nasm. An attacker could create an ASM file in such a way that when compiled by a victim, could execute arbitrary code on their machine. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CAN-2004-1287 and CAN-2005-1194 to these issues.

 All users of nasm are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported fixes for these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL nasm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:381.

See Also

http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/nasm.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?23d9f99c

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=143081

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=152962

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:381

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18196

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-381.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

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: 6.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2004-1287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nasm-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nasm-rdoff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nasm

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1287, CVE-2005-1194

RHSA: 2005:381