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Fedora 8 : vinagre-0.4-2.fc8 (2008-10941)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35064

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update backports fix for a format string flaw in vinagre_utils_show_error() from new upstream 0.5.2 / 2.24.2.

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 vinagre package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475070

http://www.nessus.org/u?5c0063bf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35064

File Name: fedora_2008-10941.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 12/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5660

BID: 32682

CWE: 134

FEDORA: 2008-10941