Fedora 14 : mongoose-3.0-2.fc14 (2011-11825)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56137

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Add upstream patch to fix CVE-2011-2900

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 mongoose package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729145

http://www.nessus.org/u?6880453a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56137

File Name: fedora_2011-11825.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 8/31/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2900

BID: 48980

FEDORA: 2011-11825