CentOS Update for newt CESA-2009:1463 centos3 i386. Newt programming library update addressing buffer overflow vulnerability
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 64 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | CVE-2009-2905 | 29 Sep 200919:00 | – | cvelist |
![]() | Newt: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code | 2 Jun 201000:00 | – | gentoo |
![]() | Debian DSA-1894-1 : newt - buffer overflow | 24 Feb 201000:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 10 : newt-0.52.10-2.fc10 (2009-9957) | 28 Sep 200900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Scientific Linux Security Update : newt on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64 | 1 Aug 201200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | GLSA-201006-14 : Newt: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code | 3 Jun 201000:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : newt (RHSA-2009:1463) | 25 Sep 200900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | openSUSE Security Update : libnewt0_52 (libnewt0_52-1331) | 22 Oct 200900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : newt (CESA-2009:1463) | 28 Sep 200900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : newt (MDVSA-2009:249-1) | 28 Sep 200900:00 | – | nessus |
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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
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# CentOS Update for newt CESA-2009:1463 centos3 i386
#
# Authors:
# System Generated Check
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
# (or any later version), as published by the Free Software Foundation.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget-based user
interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets,
checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, and so
on, to text mode user interfaces.
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way newt processes
content that is to be displayed in a text dialog box. A local attacker
could issue a specially-crafted text dialog box display request (direct or
via a custom application), leading to a denial of service (application
crash) or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the
user running the application using the newt library. (CVE-2009-2905)
Users of newt should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the updated
packages, all applications using the newt library must be restarted for the
update to take effect.";
tag_solution = "Please Install the Updated Packages.";
tag_affected = "newt on CentOS 3";
if(description)
{
script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-September/016171.html");
script_id(880778);
script_version("$Revision: 6653 $");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-10 13:46:53 +0200 (Mon, 10 Jul 2017) $");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-08-09 08:20:34 +0200 (Tue, 09 Aug 2011)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.6");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_xref(name: "CESA", value: "2009:1463");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2905");
script_name("CentOS Update for newt CESA-2009:1463 centos3 i386");
script_summary("Check for the Version of newt");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/centos", "ssh/login/rpms");
script_tag(name : "affected" , value : tag_affected);
script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = get_kb_item("ssh/login/release");
res = "";
if(release == NULL){
exit(0);
}
if(release == "CentOS3")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"newt", rpm:"newt~0.51.5~2.el3", rls:"CentOS3")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"newt-devel", rpm:"newt-devel~0.51.5~2.el3", rls:"CentOS3")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
exit(0);
}
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