Fedora 11 : pidgin-2.6.6-1.fc11 (2010-1279)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 47244

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

2.6.6 with security and numerous minor bug fixes CVE-2010-0277 CVE-2010-0420 CVE-2010-0423

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 pidgin package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554335

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565786

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565792

http://www.nessus.org/u?d8db0720

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 47244

File Name: fedora_2010-1279.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin, 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: 2/19/2010

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2694, CVE-2010-0013, CVE-2010-0277, CVE-2010-0420, CVE-2010-0423

BID: 36071, 36277, 37524, 38294

CWE: 20, 22, 399

FEDORA: 2010-1279