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Fedora 14 : fontforge-20100501-5.fc14 (2010-18573)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51149

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVE-2010-4259 crash. See bug for proof of concept test.

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 fontforge package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659359

http://www.nessus.org/u?a2f4093e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51149

File Name: fedora_2010-18573.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4259

FEDORA: 2010-18573