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Fedora 8 : gnome-screensaver-2.20.0-11.fc8 (2008-2872)

low Nessus Plugin ID 31750

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses CVE-2007-6389 a flaw where the contents of the user's clipboard can be accessed from the 'Leave Message' feature within the lock screen dialog.

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 gnome-screensaver package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426170

http://www.nessus.org/u?ddbc3603

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 31750

File Name: fedora_2008-2872.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/4/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-screensaver, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6389

FEDORA: 2008-2872