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RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 / 5 : bzip2 (RHSA-2008:0893)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34229

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated bzip2 packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.

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

Bzip2 is a freely available, high-quality data compressor. It provides both stand-alone compression and decompression utilities, as well as a shared library for use with other programs.

A buffer over-read flaw was discovered in the bzip2 decompression routine. This issue could cause an application linked against the libbz2 library to crash when decompressing malformed archives.
(CVE-2008-1372)

Users of bzip2 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected bzip2, bzip2-devel and / or bzip2-libs packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-1372

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0893

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34229

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0893.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2008

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bzip2-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bzip2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bzip2-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1372

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2008:0893