Fedora 9 : jhead-2.86-1.fc9 (2009-1776)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 35781

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- fixes 'CVE-2008-4640 jhead: arbitrary file deletion' (#468056) * fixes 'CVE-2008-4641 jhead: command exection caused by incorrect handling of the shell escapes' (#468057)

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 jhead package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468056

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468057

http://www.nessus.org/u?f9ec2834

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 35781

File Name: fedora_2009-1776.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:jhead, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4640, CVE-2008-4641

BID: 32506

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2009-1776