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Fedora Core 6 : tcpdump-3.9.4-10.fc6 (2007-347)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24836

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Mar 15 2007 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> - 14:3.9.4-10.fc6

 - fix buffer overflow in 802.11 printer (#232349, CVE-2007-1218)

 - require /usr/sbin/sendmail (#232363)

 - Fri Nov 17 2006 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> - 14:3.9.4-9

 - fix processing of Prism and AVS headers (#206686)

 - fix arp2ethers script

 - update ethercodes.dat

 - move pcap man page to devel 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?dcb7ba6a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24836

File Name: fedora_2007-347.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

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:arpwatch, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpcap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpcap-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcpdump, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcpdump-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1218

CWE: 119, 189

FEDORA: 2007-347