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Fedora 10 : uw-imap-2007e-1.fc10 (2009-0413)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 37219

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?0dfb0684

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 37219

File Name: fedora_2009-0413.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: 4.3

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:10

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5514

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-0413