CentOS 4 / 5 : neon (CESA-2009:1452)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43792

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated neon packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

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

neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface. It provides a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling. neon supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support.

It was discovered that neon is affected by the previously published 'null prefix attack', caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters in X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker could use the certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and potentially confuse an application using the neon library into accepting it by mistake. (CVE-2009-2474)

A denial of service flaw was found in the neon Extensible Markup Language (XML) parser. A remote attacker (malicious DAV server) could provide a specially crafted XML document that would cause excessive memory and CPU consumption if an application using the neon XML parser was tricked into processing it. (CVE-2009-2473)

All neon users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. Applications using the neon HTTP and WebDAV client library, such as cadaver, must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected neon packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ad30890

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3f68d62

http://www.nessus.org/u?e702acf7

http://www.nessus.org/u?d4a24693

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43792

File Name: centos_RHSA-2009-1452.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:neon, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:neon-devel, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2473, CVE-2009-2474

BID: 36079, 36080

CWE: 310, 399

RHSA: 2009:1452