{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-5079 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2007-5079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Linux, published on 25 Sep 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2007-5079 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2007-5079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Linux, published on 25 Sep 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-5079 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Redhat Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5079/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5079/index.md)","id":"CVE-2007-5079","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5079/index.md","name":"CVE-2007-5079","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-245g-gjxh-59c2","RHSA-2010:0657"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can bypass access restrictions in GDM on x86_64 systems due to improper linking with 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credentials in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-0248","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-04-26"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Weak cryptography in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-0093","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-02-08"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"Red Hat","prefix":"RHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can bypass access restrictions in GDM on x86_64 systems due to improper linking with tcp_wrappers.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5079/"}