MDVA-2009:249 : mdkonline

high Nessus Plugin ID 43105

Synopsis

The remote Mandriva host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

This update fixes several issues regarding the live upgrade to a more recent distribution, notably: - new distributions are now only presented after all updates were applied. - if current distribution is no more supported, we will warn about it and offer to upgrade to a newer release - makes the new config tool backported from 2010.0 to work on 2009.0 too (due to older drakxtools API) - update the authentication scheme for MES5

It also fix a couple crashes: - a rare crash (bug #55346) - gracefully handle (rare) server issues (bugs #51299 & #51548)

Now passwords with special caracters are properly managed. For security, we now access api.mandriva.com through the https protocol.
The applet now offer to configure a couple settings. It has now more efficient system power usage.

Solution

Update the affected package(s).

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 43105

File Name: mandriva_MDVA-2009-249.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 12/11/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:mandriva:linux

Required KB Items: Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2009

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