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Fedora 8 : xemacs-packages-extra-20070427-2.fc8 (2008-5504)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33237

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Jun 18 2008 Ville Skytta <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 20070427-2 - Apply upstream security fix for CVE-2008-2142 (#446069).

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 xemacs-packages-extra package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446069

http://www.nessus.org/u?31273d84

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33237

File Name: fedora_2008-5504.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/24/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xemacs-packages-extra, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/20/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2142

BID: 29176

FEDORA: 2008-5504