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Fedora 15 : xml-security-c-1.5.1-5.fc15 (2011-9494)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55739

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix CVE-2011-2516: Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ contains buffer overflows signing or verifying with large keys.

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 xml-security-c package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719698

http://www.nessus.org/u?eb5197fa

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55739

File Name: fedora_2011-9494.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/1/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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:xml-security-c

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2516

FEDORA: 2011-9494