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Fedora Core 1 : glibc-2.3.2-101.1 (2003-002)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 13661

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Herbert Xu reported that various applications can accept spoofed messages sent on the kernel netlink interface by other users on the local machine. This could lead to a local denial of service attack.
The glibc function getifaddrs uses netlink and could therefore be vulnerable to this issue. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0859 to this issue.

In addition to this this update fixes a couple of bugs.

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1510b84b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 13661

File Name: fedora_2003-002.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc-debuginfo-common, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nptl-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nscd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:1

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0859

FEDORA: 2003-002