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Fedora Core 6 : nspr-4.6.5-0.6.0.fc6 / nss-3.11.5-0.6.0.fc6 (2007-279)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24715

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update fixes two security vulnerabilities with SSL 2 (CVE-2007-0008, CVE-2007-0009).

All users of NSS, which includes users of Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other mozilla.org products, are recommended to update to this package.

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?ada15665

http://www.nessus.org/u?880ed9d2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24715

File Name: fedora_2007-279.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/27/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nspr-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nspr, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nspr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss-tools, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0008, CVE-2007-0009

CWE: 119, 189

FEDORA: 2007-279