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Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / cups (ELSA-2008-0157)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 67661

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0157 advisory.

 [1.2.4-11.14:.4]
 - Prevent double-free when a browsed class has the same name as a printer or vice versa (bug #433766, STR #2656).

 [1.2.4-11.14:.3]
 - pdftops: Fix invalid dereference from bad Info object (found during testing of bug #356571).

 [1.2.4-11.14:.2]
 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4045 (bug #356571).
 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392 and CVE-2007-5393 (bug #356571).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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 packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2008-0157.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 67661

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0157.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-0882

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0882

BID: 27906

RHSA: 2008:0157