Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51010
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2003:310
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2003:310. The fileutils package contains several basic system utilities. One of these utilities is the ls program, which is used to list information about files and directories. Georgi Guninski discovered a memory starvation denial of service vulnerability in the ls program. It is possible to make ls allocate a huge amount of memory by specifying certain command line arguments. This vulnerability is remotely exploitable through services like wu-ftpd, which pass user arguments to ls. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0854 to this issue. A non-exploitable integer overflow in ls has been discovered. It is possible to make ls crash by specifying certain command line arguments. This vulnerability is remotely exploitable through services like wu-ftpd, which pass user arguments to ls. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0853 to this issue. Users are advised to update to these erratum packages, which contain backported security patches that correct these vulnerabilities. These packages also add support for the O_DIRECT flag, which controls the use of synchronous I/O on file systems such as OCFS. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-310.html Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 5.0
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0853 BugTraq ID: 8875 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8875 Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2003:768 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000768 Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2003:771 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000771 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-October/012548.html Immunix Linux Advisory: IMNX-2003-7+-026-01 http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/6014 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:106 http://www.guninski.com/binls.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-309.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-310.html http://secunia.com/advisories/10126 http://secunia.com/advisories/17069 TurboLinux Advisory: TLSA-2003-60 http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-60.txt Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0854 Debian Security Information: DSA-705 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-705 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/115
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