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Fedora 9 : pidgin-2.5.8-1.fc9 (2009-7415)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39612

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Several important bug fixes: - More fixes for Yahoo protocol 16 - MSN, MySpace, XMPP - CVE-2009-1889

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508738

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7df081f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39612

File Name: fedora_2009-7415.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1889

BID: 35530

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2009-7415