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Fedora Core 3 : tetex-2.0.2-21.2 (2004-585)

high Nessus Plugin ID 16099

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

The updated tetex package fixes a buffer overflow which allows attackers to cause the internal xpdf library used by applications in tetex to crash, and possibly to execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures projects (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-1125 to this issue.

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e8c19d15

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 16099

File Name: fedora_2004-585.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/4/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-latex, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-fonts, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-dvips, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-afm, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-xdvi

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1125

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2004-585