Fedora 7 : cpio-2.6-28.fc7 (2007-2744)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27801

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Nov 2 2007 Radek Brich <rbrich at redhat.com> 2.6-28

- patch for CVE-2007-4476 (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 cpio and / or cpio-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280961

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=363891

http://www.nessus.org/u?bf5337a9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27801

File Name: fedora_2007-2744.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

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:cpio, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cpio-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

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

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2007-2744