Newt package update for Fedora 10 (2009-9957) fixes buffer overflow vulnerabilit
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 64 |
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OpenVAS | CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:1463 (newt) | 28 Sep 200900:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:249-1 (newt) | 10 Dec 200900:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | CentOS Update for newt CESA-2009:1463 centos4 i386 | 9 Aug 201100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | CentOS Update for newt CESA-2009:1463 centos3 i386 | 9 Aug 201100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2009-1463) | 8 Oct 201500:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | CentOS Update for newt CESA-2009:1463 centos3 i386 | 9 Aug 201100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201006-14 (newt) | 9 Mar 201100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1463 | 28 Sep 200900:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Debian Security Advisory DSA 1894-1 (newt) | 28 Sep 200900:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:249 (newt) | 6 Oct 200900:00 | – | openvas |
Source | Link |
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nessus | www.nessus.org/u |
bugzilla | www.bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi |
cve | www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2009-9957.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(41635);
script_version("1.16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2905");
script_bugtraq_id(36515);
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2009-9957");
script_name(english:"Fedora 10 : newt-0.52.10-2.fc10 (2009-9957)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Fixes a buffer overflow in textbox, which could be exploited to
execute arbitrary code.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955"
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2009-September/029501.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4eaf43b3"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected newt package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(119);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:newt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/09/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/09/28");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^10([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 10.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC10", reference:"newt-0.52.10-2.fc10")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "newt");
}
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