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Fedora 16 : rpm-4.9.1.2-1.fc16 (2011-13766)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56424

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes some crashes which can occur when reading malformed package headers.

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 rpm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741606

http://www.nessus.org/u?cf761065

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56424

File Name: fedora_2011-13766.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rpm, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3378

BID: 49799

FEDORA: 2011-13766