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Fedora 12 : automake-1.11.1-1.fc12 (2009-13157)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44879

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Dec 9 2009 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11.1-1

 - update to version 1.11.1 to fix CVE-2009-4029

 - Tue Dec 1 2009 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11-6

 - preserve time stamps of man pages (#225302)

 - drop MIT from list of licenses

 - Wed Nov 4 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 1.11-5

 - add even more testsuite build requires

 - Wed Nov 4 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 1.11-4

 - add build requires for testsuite

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 automake package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542609

http://www.nessus.org/u?e0fc07f0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44879

File Name: fedora_2009-13157.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:automake, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4029

BID: 37378

CWE: 264

FEDORA: 2009-13157