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Fedora 14 : exim-4.76-1.fc14 (2011-7047)

high Nessus Plugin ID 54296

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes two remote execution exploits in DKIM processing code (CVE-2011-1407, CVE-2011-1764).

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 exim package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702474

http://www.nessus.org/u?b70a70eb

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 54296

File Name: fedora_2011-7047.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1764

FEDORA: 2011-7047