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Fedora 8 : libxml2-2.6.32-2.fc8 (2008-7724)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34147

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Aug 25 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 2.6.31-2.fc8

 - fix for entities recursion problem

 - Resolve: rhbz#459712

 - Fri Apr 11 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 2.6.32-1.fc8

 - upstream release 2.6.32 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

 - many bugs fixed upstrea

 - Fri Jan 11 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 2.6.31-1.fc8

 - upstream release 2.6.31 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

 - many bug fixed upstream

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 libxml2 package.

See Also

http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?bbb8bc88

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34147

File Name: fedora_2008-7724.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2008

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3281

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2008-7724