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Fedora Core 6 : fetchmail-6.3.6-3.fc6 (2007-689)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25979

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Sep 3 2007 Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek at redhat.com> - 6.3.6-3

 - Fix license

 - Fix fetchmail NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2007-4565) Resolves: #260881

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?759504ce

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25979

File Name: fedora_2007-689.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/5/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:fetchmail, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:fetchmail-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-689