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RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 : ncompress (RHSA-2006:0663)

high Nessus Plugin ID 22345

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated ncompress packages that address a security issue and fix bugs are now available.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The ncompress package contains file compression and decompression utilities, which are compatible with the original UNIX compress utility (.Z file extensions).

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a lack of bounds checking in ncompress. An attacker could create a carefully crafted file that could execute arbitrary code if uncompressed by a victim.
(CVE-2006-1168)

In addition, two bugs that affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ncompress packages were fixed :

* The display statistics and compression results in verbose mode were not shown when operating on zero length files.

* An attempt to compress zero length files resulted in an unexpected return code.

Users of ncompress are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected ncompress package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2006-1168

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0663

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22345

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2006-0663.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/14/2006

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: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ncompress, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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: 9/12/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1168

BID: 19455

RHSA: 2006:0663