RHEL 4 : openmotif (RHSA-2006:0272)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 21181

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openmotif.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2006:0272 advisory.

- openmotif libUil buffer overflows (CVE-2005-3964)

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 openmotif package based on the guidance in RHSA-2006:0272.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?02a13808

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=174815

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0272

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 21181

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2006-0272.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/4/2006

Updated: 4/21/2024

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2005-3964

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:openmotif21, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openmotif, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openmotif-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/4/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3964

RHSA: 2006:0272