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Fedora 8 : jhead-2.84-1.fc8 (2008-8941)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 34453
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
- Thu Oct 16 2008 Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> - 2.84-1- updated to 2.84
- fixes 'CVE-2008-4575 jhead buffer overflow' (#467262)
- removed upstreamed makefile patch
- Wed Sep 24 2008 Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> - 2.82-2
- rebased makefile patch
- Sat Apr 5 2008 Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> - 2.82-1
- updated to 2.82
- Mon Feb 18 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject.org> - 2.7-3
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
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Solution
Update the affected jhead package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 34453
File Name: fedora_2008-8941.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 10/21/2008
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: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:jhead, 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: 10/20/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-4575
BID: 31770