Fedora Core 2 : sharutils-4.2.1-18.1.FC2 (2005-280)

high Nessus Plugin ID 18331

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Mar 31 2005 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> 4.2.1-18.1.FC2

- apply patch to fix multiple buffer overflows #152571

- apply patch to fix buffer overflow in handling of -o option, CVE-2004-1772, #123230

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 sharutils and / or sharutils-debuginfo packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18331

File Name: fedora_2005-280.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 5/19/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-280

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