Fedora Core 5 : fetchmail-6.3.6-1.fc5 (2007-041)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24194

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Sat Jan 6 2007 Miloslav Trmac <mitr at redhat.com> - 6.3.6-1

- Update to fetchmail-6.3.6 (CVE-2006-5867, CVE-2006-5974)

- Wed Nov 1 2006 Miloslav Trmac <mitr at redhat.com> - 6.3.5-1

- Update to fetchmail-6.3.5

- Fix some rpmlint warnings

- Sun Sep 24 2006 Miloslav Trmac <mitr at redhat.com> - 6.3.4-2

- Don't increase the certificate search path on each poll (#206346)

- Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
- 6.3.4-1.1

- rebuild

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 fetchmail and / or fetchmail-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f1629976

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24194

File Name: fedora_2007-041.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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5867, CVE-2006-5974

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2007-041