RHEL 4 / 5 / 6 : cyrus-imapd (RHSA-2011:1317)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 56235

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for cyrus-imapd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1317 advisory.

- cyrus-imapd: nntpd buffer overflow in split_wildmats() (CVE-2011-3208)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL cyrus-imapd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1317.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 56235

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1317.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/20/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3208

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-murder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-nntp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cyrus-imapd-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cyrus, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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: 9/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3208

BID: 49534

RHSA: 2011:1317

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