Fedora 8 : comix-3.6.4-6.fc8 (2008-2981)

high Nessus Plugin ID 31821

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Several security flaws are reported against comix 3.6.4. One issue is that comix uses os.popen() to execute external commands without handling filenames properly. This may allow malicios users to execute arbitrary commands by opening some files with crafted names. This issue is now identified as CVE-2008-1568. Another issue is that comix creates a directory under /tmp with the name easily predictable by any users. This will cause DOS attach for multiuser system. This new package will fix these issues.

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 comix package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430635

http://www.nessus.org/u?4723d8fe

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31821

File Name: fedora_2008-2981.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:comix, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1568, CVE-2008-1796

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2008-2981