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Fedora 9 : uw-imap-2007e-1.fc9 (2009-0371)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35438

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to new upstream version - 2007e. Contains fix for a security issue - buffer overflow in rfc822_output_char / rfc822_output_data (CVE-2008-5514).

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 uw-imap package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227

http://www.nessus.org/u?705a7940

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35438

File Name: fedora_2009-0371.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/22/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:uw-imap, 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: 1/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5514

BID: 32958

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-0371