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Fedora 10 : syslog-ng-2.0.10-1.fc10 (2008-10879)

high Nessus Plugin ID 36373

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVE-2008-5110

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 syslog-ng package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471984

http://www.nessus.org/u?89990ede

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36373

File Name: fedora_2008-10879.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:syslog-ng, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5110

CWE: 264

FEDORA: 2008-10879