Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20091102
Revision Date:2009-06-15Version:638
Title:RHSA-2009:1102: cscope security update (Moderate)
Description: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-2009-0148)

    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.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2004-2541
    CVE-2009-0148
    RHSA-2009:1102
    RHSA-2009:1102-01
    RHSA-2009:1102-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is installed
  • AND cscope is earlier than 0:15.5-15.1.el5_3.1
  • AND cscope is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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