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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60769
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 7 FEDORA-2008-3037 (bzip2)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to bzip2
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-3037.

Update Information:

This update fixes bzip2 denial of service (crash) on malformed archives -
CVE-2008-1372, #438118.

ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr 1 2008 Ivana Varekova 1.0.4-11
- fix cash on malformed archive file - CVE-2008-1372 (#438118)
(apply upstream patch)

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #438118 - CVE-2008-1372 bzip2: cash on malformed archive file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438118

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update bzip2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-3037

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
4.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-1372
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
BugTraq ID: 28286
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28286
Bugtraq: 20080321 rPSA-2008-0118-1 bzip2 (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489968/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20081203 VMSA-2008-0019 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2 (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded
Cert/CC Advisory: TA09-218A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#813451
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/813451
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00165.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00225.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-02.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-40.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:075
http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/
NETBSD Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2008-004
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-004.txt.asc
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10067
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6467
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0893.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020867
http://secunia.com/advisories/29410
http://secunia.com/advisories/29475
http://secunia.com/advisories/29497
http://secunia.com/advisories/29506
http://secunia.com/advisories/29656
http://secunia.com/advisories/29677
http://secunia.com/advisories/29698
http://secunia.com/advisories/29940
http://secunia.com/advisories/31204
http://secunia.com/advisories/31869
http://secunia.com/advisories/31878
http://secunia.com/advisories/36096
http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.473263
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241786-1
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:011 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/590-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0915
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2557
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172
XForce ISS Database: bzip2-archives-code-execution(41249)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41249
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