Fedora 9 : wordpress-2.6.3-1.fc9 (2008-9257)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34712

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/wordpress-263/

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.

Solution

Update the affected wordpress package.

See Also

https://wordpress.org/news/2008/10/wordpress-263/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469320

http://www.nessus.org/u?c9bd3b97

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34712

File Name: fedora_2008-9257.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4796

CWE: 94

FEDORA: 2008-9257