Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.870884
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Update for gnome-vfs2 RHSA-2013:0131-01
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'gnome-vfs2'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'gnome-vfs2' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: The gnome-vfs2 packages provide the GNOME Virtual File System, which is the foundation of the Nautilus file manager. neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library embedded in the gnome-vfs2 packages. A denial of service flaw was found in the neon Extensible Markup Language (XML) parser. Visiting a malicious DAV server with an application using gnome-vfs2 (such as Nautilus) could possibly cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU and memory. (CVE-2009-2473) This update also fixes the following bugs: * When extracted from the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), gnome-vfs2 returned escaped file paths. If a path, as stored in the URI, contained non-ASCII characters or ASCII characters which are parsed as something other than a file path (for example, spaces), the escaped path was inaccurate. Consequently, files with the described type of URI could not be processed. With this update, gnome-vfs2 properly unescapes paths that are required for a system call. As a result, these paths are parsed properly. (BZ#580855) * In certain cases, the trash info file was populated by foreign entries, pointing to live data. Emptying the trash caused an accidental deletion of valuable data. With this update, a workaround has been applied in order to prevent the deletion. As a result, the accidental data loss is prevented, however further information is still gathered to fully fix this problem. (BZ#586015) ClearCase. This behavior significantly slowed down file operations. With this update, the unnecessary stat() operations have been limited. As a result, gnome-vfs2 user interfaces, such as Nautilus, are more responsive. (BZ#822817) All gnome-vfs2 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. Description truncated, please see the referenced URL(s) for more information. Affected Software/OS: gnome-vfs2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. CVSS Score: 4.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2473 36371 http://secunia.com/advisories/36371 ADV-2009-2341 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2341 APPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html FEDORA-2009-8794 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00924.html FEDORA-2009-8815 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00945.html MDVSA-2009:221 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:221 RHSA-2013:0131 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0131.html SUSE-SR:2009:018 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html [neon] 20090818 CVE-2009-2473: fix for "billion laughs" attack against expat http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001045.html [neon] 20090818 neon: release 0.28.6 (SECURITY) http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 neon-xml-dos(52633) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52633 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9461 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9461
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