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Fedora 11 : pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc11 (2010-8523)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 47495

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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?aff39fd7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 47495

File Name: fedora_2010-8523.nasl

Version: 1.17

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: 5/13/2010

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2694, CVE-2010-0013, CVE-2010-1624

BID: 36071, 36277, 37524, 38294, 40138

CWE: 22, 399

FEDORA: 2010-8523