Fedora 8 : postfix-2.5.5-1.fc8 (2008-8595)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34377

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream patch level version 2.5.5, including multiple security fixes detailed in upstream announcements:
http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080814.html http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080902.html

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 postfix package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34377

File Name: fedora_2008-8595.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/10/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:postfix, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2936, CVE-2008-2937, CVE-2008-3889

BID: 30691, 30977

CWE: 20, 200, 264

FEDORA: 2008-8595

Detections

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