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Fedora 13 : pidgin-2.7.2-1.fc13 (2010-11321)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47841

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New release to address a security issue and a couple of bugfixes Details at http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

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=617105

http://www.nessus.org/u?30810c82

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47841

File Name: fedora_2010-11321.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/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: 7/23/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2528

BID: 40138, 41881

FEDORA: 2010-11321