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Fedora 10 : net-snmp-5.4.2.1-1.fc10 (2008-10451)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36774

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Nov 3 2008 Jan Safranek <jsafranek at redhat.com> 5.4.2.1-1

 - explicitly require the right version and release of net-snmp and net-snmp-libs

 - update to net-snmp-5.4.2.1 to fix CVE-2008-4309

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 net-snmp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469349

http://www.nessus.org/u?210cae4e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36774

File Name: fedora_2008-10451.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4309

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2008-10451