Fedora 12 : w3m-0.5.2-17.fc12 (2010-10369)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47768

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Resolves:rh#604864-CVE-2010-2074 w3m: doesn't handle NULL in Common Name properly

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 w3m package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6ce3be22

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604855

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47768

File Name: fedora_2010-10369.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:w3m, 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: 6/24/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2074

BID: 40837

FEDORA: 2010-10369