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Fedora 8 : boost-1.34.1-7.fc8 (2008-0754)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 31427
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
- Wed Jan 16 2008 Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> 1.34.1-7- Fixes for boost.regex (rev 42674).
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 boost package.See Also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428316
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428320
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 31427
File Name: fedora_2008-0754.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 3/13/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:boost
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-0171, CVE-2008-0172