Fedora Core 4 : slocate-2.7-22.fc4.1 (2005-770)

low Nessus Plugin ID 19480

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

A carefully prepared directory structure could stop the updatedb file system scan, resulting in an incomplete slocate database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CVE-2005-2499 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 slocate and / or slocate-debuginfo packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 19480

File Name: fedora_2005-770.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 8/23/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:slocate, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:slocate-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2499

FEDORA: 2005-770

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