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RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 / 5 : e2fsprogs (RHSA-2008:0003)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29876

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated e2fsprogs packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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

The e2fsprogs packages contain a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second and third extended (ext2/ext3) file systems.

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the way e2fsprogs processes file system content. If a victim opens a carefully crafted file system with a program using e2fsprogs, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the victim. It may be possible to leverage this flaw in a virtualized environment to gain access to other virtualized hosts. (CVE-2007-5497)

Red Hat would like to thank Rafal Wojtczuk of McAfee Avert Research for responsibly disclosing these issues.

Users of e2fsprogs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve these issues.

Solution

Update the affected e2fsprogs, e2fsprogs-devel and / or e2fsprogs-libs packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-5497

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0003

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29876

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0003.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/8/2008

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:e2fsprogs-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.6, 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: 1/7/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5497

BID: 26772

CWE: 189

RHSA: 2008:0003