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Fedora 14 : cups-1.4.4-11.fc14 (2010-17641)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50618

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a cupsd memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2010-2941), as well as fixing a crash when the MIME database cannot be loaded for any reason.

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 cups package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624438

http://www.nessus.org/u?d9e9c6d0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50618

File Name: fedora_2010-17641.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/17/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2941

BID: 44530

FEDORA: 2010-17641