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RHEL 4 : bzip2 (RHSA-2005:474)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18510

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for bzip2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:474 advisory.

 - security flaw (CVE-2005-0758, CVE-2005-0953, CVE-2005-1260)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL bzip2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:474.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=155742

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=157548

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=159816

http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-002.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?1001b9f8

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:474

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18510

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-474.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/17/2005

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-0758

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-1260

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bzip2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bzip2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bzip2-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0758, CVE-2005-0953, CVE-2005-1260

RHSA: 2005:474