Fedora Core 5 : gzip-1.3.5-7.fc5 (2006-989)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24183

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Sep 20 2006 Ivana Varekova <varekova at redhat.com> 1.3.5-7.fc5

- fix bug 204676 (patches by Tavis Ormandy)

- CVE-2006-4334 - null dereference problem

- CVE-2006-4335 - buffer overflow problem

- CVE-2006-4336 - buffer underflow problem

- CVE-2006-4338 - infinite loop problem

- CVE-2006-4337 - buffer overflow problem

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 gzip and / or gzip-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?896a5020

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24183

File Name: fedora_2006-989.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gzip, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gzip-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-989