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Fedora 9 : vnc-4.1.3-1.fc9 (2009-1001)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 35465

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 4.1.3 maintenance release which contains fix for CVE-2008-4770

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 vnc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480590

http://www.nessus.org/u?6d3ba746

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 35465

File Name: fedora_2009-1001.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:vnc, 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: 1/27/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4770

BID: 33263

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2009-1001