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Fedora 15 : vte-0.28.1-1.fc15 / vte3-0.28.1-1.fc15 (2011-9330)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55662

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update fixes a possible memory exhaustion flaw in vte (CVE-2011-2198).

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 vte and / or vte3 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?53a767f3

http://www.nessus.org/u?6ed90f93

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55662

File Name: fedora_2011-9330.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/25/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:vte3, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:vte, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2011

Reference Information

BID: 48645

FEDORA: 2011-9330