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Fedora 15 : python-feedparser-5.0.1-1.fc15 (2011-4988)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53457

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Current release: 5.0.1 - February 20, 2011

 - Fix issue 91 (invalid text in XML declaration causes sanitizer to crash)

 - Fix issue 254 (sanitization can be bypassed by malformed XML comments)

 - Fix issue 255 (sanitizer doesn't strip unsafe URI schemes)

Previous release: 5.0 - January 25, 2011

 - Improved MathML support

 - Support microformats (rel-tag, rel-enclosure, xfn, hcard)

 - Support IRIs

 - Allow safe CSS through sanitization

 - Allow safe HTML5 through sanitization

 - Support SVG

 - Support inline XML entity declarations

 - Support unescaped quotes and angle brackets in attributes

 - Support additional date formats

 - Added the request_headers argument to parse()

 - Added the response_headers argument to parse()

 - Support multiple entry, feed, and source authors

 - Officially make Python 2.4 the earliest supported version

 - Support Python 3

 - Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes

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 python-feedparser package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684877

http://www.nessus.org/u?2a46e6e6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53457

File Name: fedora_2011-4988.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-feedparser

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-5065, CVE-2011-1156, CVE-2011-1157, CVE-2011-1158

BID: 46867, 47177

FEDORA: 2011-4988