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Fedora 27 : exim (2018-db9adf44c9)

high Nessus Plugin ID 108573

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update fixing dec64table OOB read in b64decode.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected exim package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-db9adf44c9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108573

File Name: fedora_2018-db9adf44c9.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2018

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