Fedora 8 : tog-pegasus-2.6.1-3.fc8 (2008-0572)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 29949

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Jan 10 2008 Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek at redhat.com> - 2.6.1-3

- Fix PAM authentication buffer overflow (CVE-2008-0003) Resolves: #427829

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 tog-pegasus, tog-pegasus-debuginfo and / or tog-pegasus-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426578

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427829

http://www.nessus.org/u?d43d7965

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 29949

File Name: fedora_2008-0572.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tog-pegasus, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tog-pegasus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tog-pegasus-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0003

BID: 27172

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-0572