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Fedora 10 : PyXML-0.8.4-12.fc10 (2009-10949)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42380

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Switched to using system expat library. Updated expat packages are needed to fully resolve this flaw.

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 PyXML package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531697

http://www.nessus.org/u?6860b44e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42380

File Name: fedora_2009-10949.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/5/2009

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: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3720

FEDORA: 2009-10949