Detections
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Fedora Core 6 : tar-1.15.1-27.fc6 (2007-735)
high Nessus Plugin ID 27635
Synopsis
The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.Description
- Wed Oct 24 2007 Radek Brich <rbrich at redhat.com> 2:1.15.1-27- backported upstream patch for CVE-2007-4476 (tar stack crashing in safer_name_suffix)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected tar and / or tar-debuginfo packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 27635
File Name: fedora_2007-735.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 11/6/2007
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tar, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tar-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-4476