CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
87.2%
Mon Nov 10 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com> 2.8.6-17
Fixed CVE-2008-4690 lynx: remote arbitrary command execution. via a crafted lynxcgi: URL (thoger)
Fri May 30 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com> 2.8.6-16
updated to latest stable upstream version 2.8.6rel5
Fri May 23 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 2.8.6-15.1
minor rebuild on sparc
Sat May 17 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 2.8.6-15
even with the patches it still built wrong in koji.
limit -j to 24 for sparc
Thu May 8 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 2.8.6-14
patch from ajax to fix parallel builds
additional patch from me for parallel builds
set default home page to start.fedoraproject.org
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2008-9550.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(35016);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-4690");
script_bugtraq_id(15395);
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2008-9550");
script_name(english:"Fedora 9 : lynx-2.8.6-17.fc9 (2008-9550)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
" - Mon Nov 10 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com>
2.8.6-17
- Fixed CVE-2008-4690 lynx: remote arbitrary command
execution. via a crafted lynxcgi: URL (thoger)
- Fri May 30 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com>
2.8.6-16
- updated to latest stable upstream version 2.8.6rel5
- Fri May 23 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> -
2.8.6-15.1
- minor rebuild on sparc
- Sat May 17 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> -
2.8.6-15
- even with the patches it still built wrong in koji.
- limit -j to 24 for sparc
- Thu May 8 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> -
2.8.6-14
- patch from ajax to fix parallel builds
- additional patch from me for parallel builds
- set default home page to start.fedoraproject.org
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468184"
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2008-December/016976.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?baf14d3e"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected lynx package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lynx");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/12/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/12/03");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^9([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 9.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC9", reference:"lynx-2.8.6-17.fc9")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "lynx");
}