Fedora 7 : snort-2.7.0.1-3.fc7 (2007-2060)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 27749

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This build moves from manual linking to alternatives.

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?97f7ef15

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 27749

File Name: fedora_2007-2060.nasl

Version: 1.21

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort-plain%2bflexresp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort-snmp%2bflexresp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort-mysql, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort-postgresql%2bflexresp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort-snmp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort-bloat, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:snort-mysql%2bflexresp

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: 9/7/2007

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Snort 2 DCE/RPC Preprocessor Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5276

FEDORA: 2007-2060