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Fedora 11 : deltarpm-3.4-17.fc11 (2009-10237)

high Nessus Plugin ID 42073

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

deltarpm prior to the current build ships with a bundled copy of zlib.
This version of zlib has a known vulnerability with CVE identifier:
CVE-2005-1849 This build of deltarpm patches the program to use the system zlib (which was fixed when the vulnerability was first discovered) instead of the bundled copy.

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 deltarpm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526432

http://www.nessus.org/u?3064677b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 42073

File Name: fedora_2009-10237.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2009

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2009-10237