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NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : tcl Vulnerability (NS-SA-2025-0225)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 266282

Synopsis

The remote NewStart CGSL host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.06, has tcl packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

 - The regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted regular expression. (CVE-2007-4772)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the vulnerable CGSL tcl packages. Note that updated packages may not be available yet. Please contact ZTE for more information.

See Also

https://security.gd-linux.com/notice/NS-SA-2025-0225

https://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2007-4772

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 266282

File Name: newstart_cgsl_NS-SA-2025-0225_tcl.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/30/2025

Updated: 9/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4772

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:tcl, cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_main:6, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:tcl-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:tcl-doc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4772