RHEL 5 : mcstrans (RHSA-2007:0542)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27830

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for mcstrans.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2007:0542 advisory.

- mctransd DoS (CVE-2007-4570)

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 RHEL mcstrans package based on the guidance in RHSA-2007:0542.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?012a182d

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228398

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288201

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0542

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27830

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0542.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2007

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4570

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mcstrans, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4570

RHSA: 2007:0542