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Unmaintainted Gentoo Packages

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24017

Synopsis

The remote operating system contains obsolete software.

Description

The remote Gentoo system contains several packages or versions which have been marked as obsolete and have been removed from the portage tree.

These versions are therefore unmaintained, which means that if any security flaw is found in them, no patch will be made available.

In addition to this, these packages might break after a library upgrade and it will be impossible to recompile them.

Solution

Remove or upgrade those packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24017

File Name: gentoo_unmaintained_packages.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list, Host/Gentoo/ebuild-list