Fedora 9 : apr-util-1.2.12-7.fc9 (2009-6014)

high Nessus Plugin ID 39504

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Backport security fixes from upstream version 1.3.7: - CVE-2009-0023 Fix underflow in apr_strmatch_precompile. - CVE-2009-1955 Fix a denial of service attack against the apr_xml_* interface using the 'billion laughs' entity expansion technique. - CVE-2009-1956 Fix off by one overflow in apr_brigade_vprintf. Note: CVE-2009-1956 is only an issue on big-endian architectures.

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.

Solution

Update the affected apr-util package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503928

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504390

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504555

http://www.nessus.org/u?c167c4e5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39504

File Name: fedora_2009-6014.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:apr-util, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0023, CVE-2009-1955, CVE-2009-1956

BID: 35221, 35251, 35253

CWE: 119, 189, 399

FEDORA: 2009-6014