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Fedora Core 6 : tetex-3.0-36.fc6 (2007-750)

high Nessus Plugin ID 28314

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- fix dvips -z buffer overflow with long href (#368591)

 - fix insecure usage of temporary file in dviljk (#368611, #368641)

 - update License and BuildRoot tags

 - fix t1lib flaw CVE-2007-4033 (#352271)

 - fix CVE-2007-4352 CVE-2007-5392 CVE-2007-5393, various xpdf flaws (#345121)

 - xdvi won't segfault if DVI file contains character which is not present in font (#243630)

 - enable compilation with ccache

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?61fd12b0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 28314

File Name: fedora_2007-750.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/26/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tetex-latex, 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, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6, 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

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4033, CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392, CVE-2007-5393

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2007-750