Fedora 8 : nagios-2.11-3.fc8 (2008-3098)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31978

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Mar 18 2008 Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 2.11-3

- add Requires for versioned perl (libperl.so)

- get rid of pointless file Requires

- Mon Mar 17 2008 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> 2.11-2

- Upstream released new version

- Added perl-ExtUtils-Embed

- Tue Feb 12 2008 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> 2.10-6

- Rebuild for gcc43

- Thu Nov 29 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> 2.10-5

- Upstream released 2.10

- Renamed cfg-sample configs to just .cfg

- Added BR of perl-devel, libjpeg-devel, libpng-devel

- Wed Sep 26 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> 2.9-5

- rebuild for koji test

- Sat Sep 8 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> 2.9-4

- rebuild

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 nagios package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=362891

http://www.nessus.org/u?1b210610

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31978

File Name: fedora_2008-3098.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5198

BID: 25952

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-3098