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Fedora 27 : mimedefang (2017-400f199e15)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105860

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

MIMEDefang 2.81 ===============

 - Don't barf if the installed version of Sys::Syslog has a developer tag added (like 0.33_01 on Debian Stretch).

 - Make mimedefang and mimedefang-multiplexor write their PID files as root to avoid an unprivileged user tampering with the pidfiles. Thanks to Michael Orlitzky for pointing this issue out.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected mimedefang package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-400f199e15

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105860

File Name: fedora_2017-400f199e15.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mimedefang

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14102