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Fedora 11 : snort-2.8.5.1-1.fc11 (2009-10783)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42882

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 2.8.5.1 which includes a fix for CVE-2009-3641 DoS (crash) while printing specially crafted IPv6 packet using the -v option

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 snort package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530863

http://www.nessus.org/u?6ebbcfc4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42882

File Name: fedora_2009-10783.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/25/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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-2009-3641

BID: 36795

FEDORA: 2009-10783