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Fedora 9 : glib2-2.16.6-3.fc9 (2009-2688)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36068

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes possible integer overflows in the base64 handling functions. This has been reported in CVE-2008-4316.

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 glib2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474770

http://www.nessus.org/u?ce5974bc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36068

File Name: fedora_2009-2688.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2009

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glib2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4316

BID: 34100

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2009-2688