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Fedora 7 : fetchmail-6.3.7-2.fc7 (2007-1983)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27742

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Sep 3 2007 Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek at redhat.com> - 6.3.7-2

 - Fix license

 - Fix fetchmail NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2007-4565) Resolves: #260861

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?902e2444

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27742

File Name: fedora_2007-1983.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:fetchmail, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:fetchmail-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4565

FEDORA: 2007-1983