Fedora 8 : adminutil-1.1.7-1.fc8 (2008-7642)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34139

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes these bugs: - CVE-2008-2928 - buffer overflow in Accept-Language parsing 413531 Web browser accepted languages configuration causes dsgw CGI binaries to segfault - improved fix for CVE-2008-2929 XSS issues (originally addressed in 1.1.6), that does not introduce heap overflow in parsing %-encoded inputs (CVE-2008-2932) 245248 dsgw doesn't escape filename in error message 454060 ViewLog CGI crash with new adminutil 1.1.6

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 adminutil package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34139

File Name: fedora_2008-7642.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 9/10/2008

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2928, CVE-2008-2929, CVE-2008-2932

BID: 30870

CWE: 119, 79

FEDORA: 2008-7642

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