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Fedora 7 : libsilc-1.0.2-6.fc7 (2008-2616)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31666

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a buffer overflow in PKCS#1 message decoding

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 libsilc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438382

http://www.nessus.org/u?35bef43f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31666

File Name: fedora_2008-2616.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1552

BID: 28373

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2008-2616