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CentOS 6 / 7 : lzo (CESA-2014:0861)

high Nessus Plugin ID 76429

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated lzo packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C.

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the lzo library decompressed certain archives compressed with the LZO algorithm. An attacker could create a specially crafted LZO-compressed input that, when decompressed by an application using the lzo library, would cause that application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2014-4607)

Red Hat would like to thank Don A. Bailey from Lab Mouse Security for reporting this issue.

All lzo users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. For the update to take effect, all services linked to the lzo library must be restarted or the system rebooted.

Solution

Update the affected lzo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d18f29b7

http://www.nessus.org/u?8eba3fb8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 76429

File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-0861.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/10/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2014-4607

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:lzo, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:lzo-minilzo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:lzo-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4607

BID: 68213

RHSA: 2014:0861