CVE-2013-1910

Description

From CVE.org

yum does not properly handle bad metadata, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and possibly have other unspecified impact via a Trojan horse file in the metadata of a remote repository.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of yum as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, as yum in those products did not (try to) use filelists metadata yet.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Info alert:Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).

The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score7.67.5N/A
Attack VectorNetworkNetworkN/A
Access ComplexityHighLowN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactCompletePartialN/A
Integrity ImpactCompletePartialN/A
Availability ImpactCompletePartialN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

Access Control,Integrity,Confidentiality

Technical Impact: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity; Modify Application Data; Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands

An attacker could gain access to sensitive data and possibly execute unauthorized code.

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