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Fedora 11 : libsilc-1.1.8-7.fc11 (2009-9342)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 40908
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
- Fri Sep 4 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 1.1.8-7- Backport patch to fix stack corruption (CVE-2008-7160) (#521256)
- Fri Sep 4 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 1.1.8-6
- Backport patch to fix additional string format vulnerabilities (#515648)
- Wed Aug 5 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 1.1.8-5
- Backport patch to fix string format vulnerability (#515648)
- Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.8-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
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 libsilc package.See Also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515648
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521256
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 40908
File Name: fedora_2009-9342.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 9/10/2009
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.8
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libsilc
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-7160
BID: 36194