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RHEL 5 : opal (RHSA-2007:0957)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 26955

Synopsis

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

Description

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

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

Open Phone Abstraction Library (opal) is implementation of various telephony and video communication protocols for use over packet based networks.

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the Ekiga application uses opal.

A flaw was discovered in the way opal handled certain Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application, such as Ekiga, which is linked with opal.
(CVE-2007-4924)

Users should upgrade to these updated opal packages which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

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

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-4924

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0957

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 26955

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0957.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2007

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: Low

Score: 3.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4924

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2007:0957