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Fedora 10 : lynx-2.8.6-18.fc10 (2008-9952)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 37326

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Nov 7 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com> - 2.8.6-18

 - Fixed CVE-2008-4690 lynx: remote arbitrary command execution. via a crafted lynxcgi: URL (thoger)

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 lynx package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468184

http://www.nessus.org/u?335b18a4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 37326

File Name: fedora_2008-9952.nasl

Version: 1.12

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4690

FEDORA: 2008-9952