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Red Hat: RHSA-2009:1101-01 Moderate: Cscope Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 16, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A crucial security alert for Red Hat users highlighting several cscope vulnerabilities that carry a moderate severity assessment.
An updated cscope package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact ...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

cscope is a mature, ncurses-based, C source-code tree browsing tool.
Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in cscope. An attacker could create a specially crafted source code file that could cause cscope to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when browsed with cscope. (CVE-2004-2541, CVE-2006-4262, CVE-2009-0148, CVE-2009-1577)
All users of cscope are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to fix these issues. All running instances of cscope must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact cscope

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-2541 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4262 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0148 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1577 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.i386.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.i386.rpm
ia64: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.ia64.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.ia64.rpm
ppc: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.ppc.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.ppc.rpm
s390: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.s390.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.s390.rpm
s390x: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.s390x.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.s390x.rpm
x86_64: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Desktop version 3:
Source:
i386: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.i386.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.i386.rpm
x86_64: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3:
Source:
i386: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.i386.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.i386.rpm
ia64: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.ia64.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.ia64.rpm
x86_64: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3:
Source:
i386: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.i386.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.i386.rpm
ia64: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.ia64.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.ia64.rpm
x86_64: cscope-15.5-16.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm cscope-debuginfo-15.5-16.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1101-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1101.html
Issue date: 2009-06-15

Topic

An updated cscope package that fixes multiple security issues is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact cscope

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

203645 - CVE-2006-4262 cscope: multiple buffer overflows

490667 - CVE-2004-2541, CVE-2009-0148 cscope: multiple buffer overflows

499174 - CVE-2009-1577 cscope: putstring buffer overflow

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