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Fedora 11 : newt-0.52.10-4.fc11 (2009-9961)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 41636

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes a buffer overflow in textbox, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

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 newt package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955

http://www.nessus.org/u?53070f08

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 41636

File Name: fedora_2009-9961.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2905

BID: 36515

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-9961