Fedora 9 : mapserver-5.2.2-1.fc9 (2009-3383)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 36091

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The releases contain fixes for issues discovered in an audit of the CGI by a 3rd party (tickets #2939, #2941, #2942, #2943 and #2944). The issues are detailed at: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2939 http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2941 http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2942 http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2943 http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2944 Also provided is support for RFC-56 that addresses tightening up the control of access to mapfiles and templates:
http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-56.html

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 mapserver package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 36091

File Name: fedora_2009-3383.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/7/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mapserver

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0839, CVE-2009-0840, CVE-2009-0841, CVE-2009-0842, CVE-2009-0843, CVE-2009-1176, CVE-2009-1177

CWE: 119, 20, 200, 22

FEDORA: 2009-3383

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