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Fedora 8 : perl-Tk-804.028-3.fc8 (2008-1323)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 30238

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Feb 5 2008 Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert[AT]lowlatency.de>

 - 804.028-3

 - fix #431529 gif overflow in tk (see also #431518)

 - Fri Jan 4 2008 Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert[AT]lowlatency.de>

 - 804.028-2

 - add relevant parts of debian patch

 - add patch for #235666

 - Wed Jan 2 2008 Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert[AT]lowlatency.de>

 - 804.028-1

 - version upgrade

 - fix #210718 SIGSEGV on exit from texdoctk

 - fix #234404 Cannot manage big listboxes

 - fix #235666 Segfault occurs when using Perl-Tk on FC6

 - Wed Dec 19 2007 Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert[AT]lowlatency.de>

 - 804.027-13

 - fix BR

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 perl-Tk package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431518

http://www.nessus.org/u?1f68a052

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 30238

File Name: fedora_2008-1323.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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:perl-tk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0553

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-1323