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Fedora 11 : pidgin-2.5.6-1.fc11 (2009-5583)
high Nessus Plugin ID 38996
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
This is a bugfix & security fix release of Pidgin. The full ChangeLog is available at http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Details of the security fixes included are available at http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/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 pidgin package.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?61751bdd
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500488
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500490
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 38996
File Name: fedora_2009-5583.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 6/3/2009
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
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:pidgin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-2927, CVE-2009-1373, CVE-2009-1374, CVE-2009-1375, CVE-2009-1376