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Fedora Core 5 : mutt-1.4.2.1-7.fc5 (2006-1061)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24036

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Oct 24 2006 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 5:1.4.2.1-7.fc5

 - fix insecure temp file creation on NFS (#211085, CVE-2006-5297)

 - Thu Jun 29 2006 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 5:1.4.2.1-6.3.fc5

 - fix a buffer overflow when processing IMAP namespace (#197152, CVE-2006-3242)

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 mutt and / or mutt-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9759cbe1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24036

File Name: fedora_2006-1061.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mutt, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mutt-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-1061