Fedora 13 : mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-12.fc13 (2011-0114)

high Nessus Plugin ID 51948

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a security issue in mod_auth_mysql.

A flaw was found in the way mod_auth_mysql escaped certain multibyte-encoded strings. If mod_auth_mysql was configured to use a multibyte character set that allowed a backslash ('\') as part of the character encodings, a remote attacker could inject arbitrary SQL commands into a login request. (CVE-2008-2384)

Note: This flaw only affected non-default installations where AuthMySQLCharacterSet is configured to use one of the affected multibyte character sets. Installations that did not use the AuthMySQLCharacterSet configuration option were not vulnerable to this flaw.

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 mod_auth_mysql package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480238

http://www.nessus.org/u?5aa92e33

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 51948

File Name: fedora_2011-0114.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mod_auth_mysql, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/4/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2384

BID: 33392

CWE: 89

FEDORA: 2011-0114