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Fedora 11 : texlive-2007-46.fc11 (2009-10857)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42787

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Oct 23 2009 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 2007-46

 - add missing dependency on kpathsea

 - Thu Oct 15 2009 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 2007-45

 - make kpathsea not dependent on texlive

 - fix lacheck again (#451513)

 - fix dvips configuration (#467542)

 - update kpathsea description and summary (#519257)

 - use upstream patch to fix pool overflow CVE-2009-1284 (#492136)

 - don't complain if the pdvipsk hunks touching config.ps don't apply

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 texlive package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136

http://www.nessus.org/u?bf9106b2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42787

File Name: fedora_2009-10857.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2009

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

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1284

BID: 34332

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-10857