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RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 : texinfo (RHSA-2006:0727)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 23678

Synopsis

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

Description

New Texinfo packages that fix various security vulnerabilities are now available.

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

Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in Texinfo's texindex command. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted Texinfo file that could cause texindex to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2006-4810)

A flaw was found in the way Texinfo's texindex command creates temporary files. A local user could leverage this flaw to overwrite files the user executing texindex has write access to. (CVE-2005-3011)

Users of Texinfo should upgrade to these updated packages which contain backported patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

Update the affected info and / or texinfo packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-3011

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2006-4810

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0727

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 23678

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2006-0727.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/20/2006

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 11/8/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3011, CVE-2006-4810

BID: 14854, 20959

RHSA: 2006:0727