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RHEL 5 : glib2 (RHSA-2009:0336)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36015

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated glib2 packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.

Diego Petteno discovered multiple integer overflows causing heap-based buffer overflows in GLib's Base64 encoding and decoding functions. An attacker could use these flaws to crash an application using GLib's Base64 functions to encode or decode large, untrusted inputs, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running the application. (CVE-2008-4316)

Note: No application shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 uses the affected functions. Third-party applications may, however, be affected.

All users of glib2 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

Solution

Update the affected glib2 and / or glib2-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-4316

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0336

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36015

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-0336.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2009

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.3

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: 3/24/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4316

BID: 34100

CWE: 189

RHSA: 2009:0336