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Fedora 11 : fetchmail-6.3.9-5.fc11 (2009-8780)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40864

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

If fetchmail is running in daemon mode, it must be restarted for this update to take effect (use the 'fetchmail --quit' command to stop the fetchmail process).

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 fetchmail package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515804

http://www.nessus.org/u?96d965d4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40864

File Name: fedora_2009-8780.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:fetchmail, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2666

CWE: 310

FEDORA: 2009-8780