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MiracleLinux 3 : gnome-vfs2-2.16.2-10.AXS3 (AXSA:2013-42:01)

high Nessus Plugin ID 289716

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2013-42:01 advisory.

 GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It is the foundation of the Nautilus file manager. It provides a modular architecture and ships with several modules that implement support for file systems, http, ftp, and others. It provides a URI-based API, backend supporting asynchronous file operations, a MIME type manipulation library, and other features.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2009-2473 neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
 Fixed bugs:
 gnome-vfs2 did not correctly parse some paths when extracted from the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
 This has bee fixed.
 The trash info file sometimes contained some foreign entries pointing to live data. Emptying the trash could result in valuable data being deleted. This has been fixed.
 Nautilus could not delete a symbolic link to a folder on a different file system. This has been fixed.
 When attempting to copy directories without a read permission, Nautilus skipped those without informing the user; it now displays an informative error message.
 gnome-vfs2 now uses less stat() function calls for files on the MultiVersion File System (used on IBM Rational ClearCase, among others), which results in Nautilus being more responsive.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected gnome-vfs2, gnome-vfs2-devel and / or gnome-vfs2-smb packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/3663

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 289716

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2013-42.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-2473

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:gnome-vfs2-smb, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:gnome-vfs2, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:3, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:gnome-vfs2-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2473