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Fedora 9 : am-utils-6.1.5-8.1.fc9 (2008-10755)

high Nessus Plugin ID 35385

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Dec 2 2008 Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> 5:6.1.5-8.1

 - fix #450754 - Amd does not work with 2.6.25 (thanks to Philippe Troin)

 - fix #435420 - CVE-2008-1078 am-utils: insecure usage of temporary files

 - fix autotools stuff

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 am-utils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435420

http://www.nessus.org/u?42f647cc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 35385

File Name: fedora_2008-10755.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/16/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:am-utils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1078

BID: 28044

CWE: 59

FEDORA: 2008-10755