Fedora 8 : lighttpd-1.4.18-6.fc8 (2008-2278)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31372

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Mar 4 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.18-6

- Include patch for CVE-2008-0983 (crash when low on file descriptors).

- Include patch for CVE-2008-1111 (cgi source disclosure).

- Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject.org>

- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

- Wed Dec 5 2007 Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org>

- Rebuild for deps

- Wed Oct 31 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.18-3

- Update mod_geoip source to fix segfault upon stopping lighttpd.

- Mon Oct 22 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.18-2

- Include mod_geoip additional source, make it an optional sub-package.

- Reorder sub-packages alphabetically in spec file.

- Make sub-packages require exact release, just in case.

- Change default webroot back from /srv to /var.

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 lighttpd package.

See Also

https://freshrpms.net/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434163

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435805

http://www.nessus.org/u?2505a483

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31372

File Name: fedora_2008-2278.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lighttpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0983, CVE-2008-1111

BID: 27943, 28100

CWE: 200, 399

FEDORA: 2008-2278