Issued:

2009-06-15

Updated:

2009-06-15

RHSA-2009:1102 - Moderate: cscope security update

Synopsis

Moderate: cscope security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An updated cscope package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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.

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 This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• cscope-15.5-15.1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
• cscope-15.5-15.1.el5_3.1.ppc.rpm
• cscope-15.5-15.1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• cscope-15.5-15.1.el5_3.1.ia64.rpm
• cscope-15.5-15.1.el5_3.1.src.rpm
• cscope-15.5-15.1.el5_3.1.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 490667

CVEs

• CVE-2009-0148
• CVE-2004-2541

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.