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Fedora 13 : pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc13 (2010-8503)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47494

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

2.7.0 with new features, bug fixes and a security fix for CVE-2010-1624 Full Upstream ChangeLog: * http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Fedora packaging changes: * Use System SSL Certificates * Add additional dependencies for Voice + Video

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://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589973

http://www.nessus.org/u?aa15375f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47494

File Name: fedora_2010-8503.nasl

Version: 1.12

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1624

BID: 40138

FEDORA: 2010-8503