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Oracle Linux 5 : Moderate: / vixie-cron (ELSA-2007-0345)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67493

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0345 advisory.

 [4.1-47.EL4]
 - removed patches for 192783, 178836 because of frozen errata
 - added only patch for CVE-2007-1856 crontab denial of service
 - Resolves: rhbz#235880

 [4.1-46.EL4]
 - Resolves: #235880 CVE-2007-1856 crontab denial of service

 [4.1-45.EL4]
 - rhbz#192783
 - rhbz#178836

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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 affected vixie-cron package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2007-0345.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67493

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0345.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-1856

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:vixie-cron

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1856

BID: 23520

RHSA: 2007:0345