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Fedora Core 3 : koffice-1.4.2-0.FC3.2 (2005-984)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20021

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Oct 11 2005 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> 4:1.4.2-0.FC3.2

 - remove security fix which is included in new 1.4.2 upstream

 - Thu Sep 29 2005 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> 4:1.4.2-0.FC3.1

 - update to 1.4.2

 - apply upstream patch to fix CVE-2005-2971 kword buffer overflow #169486

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?b0447c90

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20021

File Name: fedora_2005-984.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/19/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:koffice-i18n, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:koffice-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:koffice-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:koffice

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/13/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2971

FEDORA: 2005-984