CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : star (CESA-2007:0873)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25972

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated star package that fixes a path traversal flaw is now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Star is a tar-like archiver. It saves multiple files into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. Star includes multi-volume support, automatic archive format detection and ACL support.

A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way star extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that would cause star to write to arbitrary files to which the user running star had write access. (CVE-2007-4134)

Red Hat would like to thank Robert Buchholz for reporting this issue.

As well, this update adds the command line argument '-..' to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 version of star. This allows star to extract files containing '/../' in their pathname.

Users of star should upgrade to this updated package, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected star package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25972

File Name: centos_RHSA-2007-0873.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 9/5/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:star, cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4134

BID: 25417

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2007:0873

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