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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bzip2 (MDVSA-2010:185)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 49300

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An integer overflow has been found and corrected in bzip2 which could be exploited by using a specially crafted bz2 file and cause a denial of service attack (CVE-2010-0405).

Additionally clamav has been upgraded to 0.96.2 and has been patched for this issue. perl-Compress-Bzip2 in MES5 has been linked against the system bzip2 library to resolv this issue.

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The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 49300

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2010-185.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 9/21/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:bzip2, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:clamav, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:clamav-db, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:clamav-milter, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:clamd, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64bzip2-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64bzip2_1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64bzip2_1-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64clamav-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64clamav6, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libbzip2-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libbzip2_1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libbzip2_1-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libclamav-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libclamav6, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.1, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.0, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0405

BID: 43331

IAVB: 2010-B-0083

MDVSA: 2010:185