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Fedora 14 : libxml2-2.7.7-3.fc14 (2011-2697)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 52645

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes a possible double free in XPath evaluation

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 libxml2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665963

http://www.nessus.org/u?6ed8717f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 52645

File Name: fedora_2011-2697.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxml2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4494

BID: 45617

FEDORA: 2011-2697