Fedora 8 : emacspeak-28.0-3.fc8 (2008-8423)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34314

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Sep 26 2008 Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> - 28.0-3

- (CVE-2008-4191) fix tmpfile vulnerability in extract-table.pl with emacspeak-28.0-tmpfile.patch from upstream svn (#463819)

- Fri Sep 26 2008 Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> - 28.0-2

- fix broken generated deps reported by mtasaka (#463899)

- script the replacement of tcl with tclsh to fix missing dtk-soft

- replace python2.4 with python in HTTPSpeaker.py

- Thu Sep 25 2008 Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com>
- 28.0-1

- update to 28.0 with emacspeak-28.0-no-httpd.patch

- replace emacspeak-tcl-pkgreq-tclx.patch with sed

- emacspeak-no-linux-espeak.patch no longer needed

- update emacspeak-15.0-fixpref.patch for patch fuzz

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 emacspeak package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463819

http://www.nessus.org/u?3d5eb3c6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34314

File Name: fedora_2008-8423.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:emacspeak, 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: 10/1/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4191

BID: 31241

CWE: 59

FEDORA: 2008-8423