RHEL 4 / 5 : tar (RHSA-2010:0141)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 46264

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0141 advisory.

- tar/cpio stack crashing in safer_name_suffix (CVE-2007-4476)

- tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow by expanding a specially-crafted archive (CVE-2010-0624)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL tar package based on the guidance in RHSA-2010:0141.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 46264

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0141.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/11/2010

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4476

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0624

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tar, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4476, CVE-2010-0624

BID: 26445, 38628

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2010:0141

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