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Fedora 9 : libxml2-2.6.32-3.fc9 (2008-7395)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34130

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Aug 25 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 2.6.31-3.fc9

 - fix for entities recursion problem

 - Resolve: rhbz#459713

 - Thu May 15 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 2.6.31-2.fc9

 - try to fix multiarch problems like #440206

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Solution

Update the affected libxml2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458086

http://www.nessus.org/u?22d10513

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34130

File Name: fedora_2008-7395.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxml2, 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: 9/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3281

BID: 30783

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2008-7395