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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.68019
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2010:0703
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2010:0703.

bzip2 is a freely available, high-quality data compressor. It provides both
standalone compression and decompression utilities, as well as a shared
library for use with other programs.

An integer overflow flaw was discovered in the bzip2 decompression routine.
This issue could, when decompressing malformed archives, cause bzip2, or an
application linked against the libbz2 library, to crash or, potentially,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-0405)

Users of bzip2 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to resolve this issue. All running applications using the
libbz2 library must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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-2010-0703.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
5.1

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-0405
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html
Bugtraq: 20101207 VMSA-2010-0019 VMware ESX third party updates for Service Console (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515055/100/0/threaded
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051366.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051278.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-05.xml
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128506868510655&w=2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0703.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0858.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/41452
http://secunia.com/advisories/41505
http://secunia.com/advisories/42350
http://secunia.com/advisories/42404
http://secunia.com/advisories/42405
http://secunia.com/advisories/42529
http://secunia.com/advisories/42530
http://secunia.com/advisories/48378
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2010:018 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00000.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-986-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-986-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-986-3
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2455
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3043
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3052
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3073
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3126
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3127
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