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Oracle Linux 5 : Moderate: / tk (ELSA-2008-0136)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 67655

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0136 advisory.

 [8.4.13-5.EL5_1.1]
 - CVE-2008-0553 CVE-2007-5378
 - GIF overflow and also GIF overflow Resolves: rhbz#432514

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

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 affected tk and / or tk-devel packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2008-0136.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 67655

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0136.nasl

Version: 1.10

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-0553

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-5137

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tk, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tk-devel

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: 2/21/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5137, CVE-2008-0553

BID: 25826, 27655

RHSA: 2008:0136