RHEL 4 : cyrus-imapd (RHSA-2005:408)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 18280

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for cyrus-imapd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2005:408 advisory.

The cyrus-imapd package contains the core of the Cyrus IMAP server.

Several buffer overflow bugs were found in cyrus-imapd. It is possible that an authenticated malicious user could cause the imap server to crash.
Additionally, a peer news admin could potentially execute arbitrary code on the imap server when news is received using the fetchnews command. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0546 to this issue.

Users of cyrus-imapd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain cyrus-imapd version 2.2.12 to correct 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL cyrus-imapd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:408.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 18280

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-408.nasl

Version: 1.30

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/17/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-0546

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cyrus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-murder, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-nntp

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0546

BID: 12636

RHSA: 2005:408

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