Fedora 10 : libxml2-2.7.3-2.fc10 (2009-8491)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40569

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

two patches for parsing problems raised by ficora

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 libxml2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515195

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515205

http://www.nessus.org/u?155c431d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40569

File Name: fedora_2009-8491.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxml2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2414, CVE-2009-2416

BID: 32326, 32331, 36010

CWE: 119, 399

FEDORA: 2009-8491