Fedora 8 : linuxdcpp-1.0.1-2.fc8 (2008-6038)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33409

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix for CVE-2008-2953 and CVE-2008-2954 (#453731)

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 linuxdcpp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453731

http://www.nessus.org/u?32eaa4e3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33409

File Name: fedora_2008-6038.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:linuxdcpp, 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: 7/3/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2953, CVE-2008-2954

BID: 29924, 30037

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2008-6038