Fedora 7 : tetex-3.0-40.1.fc7 (2007-1547)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27721

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Aug 10 2007 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 3.0-40.1

- backport upstream fix for xpdf integer overflow CVE-2007-3387 (#251514)

- don't mess up file contexts while running texhash (#235032)

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?afb7483f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27721

File Name: fedora_2007-1547.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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:tetex-latex, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-fonts, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-dvips, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-afm, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-xdvi

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2007

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3387

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2007-1547