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RHEL 5 : cman (RHSA-2007:0559)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25623

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated cman packages that correct a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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

cman is the Red Hat Cluster Manager.

A flaw was found in the cman daemon. A local attacker could connect to the cman daemon and trigger a static buffer overflow leading to a denial of service or, potentially, an escalation of privileges.
(CVE-2007-3374)

Users of Cluster Manager should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected cman and / or cman-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-3374

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0559

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25623

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0559.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/29/2007

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cman, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cman-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3374

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2007:0559