Fedora Core 3 : lynx-2.8.5-18.0.1 (2005-993)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20027

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This package fixes a security bug (CVE-2005-3120) when handling connections to NNTP (news) servers.

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 lynx and / or lynx-debuginfo packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20027

File Name: fedora_2005-993.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/19/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lynx, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lynx-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-993

Detections

Analytics