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Fedora Core 3 : cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.8.5 (2005-123)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 16352

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

A problem with PDF handling was discovered by Chris Evans, and has been fixed. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (www.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0888 to this issue.

FEDORA-2004-337 attempted to correct this but the patch was incomplete.

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?f7b578bb

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 16352

File Name: fedora_2005-123.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/10/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

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:cups, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-libs, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0888

FEDORA: 2005-123