Detections
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Fedora 9 : fetchmail-6.3.8-7.fc9 (2008-5789)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 33372
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txtNote 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 fetchmail package.See Also
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 33372
File Name: fedora_2008-5789.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 7/2/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:fetchmail, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-2711
BID: 29705