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Oracle Linux 5 : tcl (ELSA-2013-0122)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68693

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0122 advisory.

 - Fixed infinite loop in regex NFA optimization code Resolves: CVE-2007-4772
 - Fixed O(N^2) compile time (and huge memory requirements) for some regexps Resolves: CVE-2007-6067

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

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

Solution

Update the affected tcl, tcl-devel and / or tcl-html packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0122.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 68693

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0122.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-6067

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:oracle:linux:tcl-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tcl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tcl-html

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: 1/12/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067

BID: 27163

RHSA: 2013:0122