Fedora 8 : fetchmail-6.3.8-4.fc8 (2008-5800)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33373

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt

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 fetchmail package.

See Also

http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451758

http://www.nessus.org/u?c1e6f5c9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33373

File Name: fedora_2008-5800.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: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: 6/28/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2711

BID: 29705

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2008-5800