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Fedora 16 : bip-0.8.8-2.fc16 (2012-0941)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57829

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Add upstream patch to fix buffer overflow with too many open fd's

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 bip package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784299

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2c67c3a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57829

File Name: fedora_2012-0941.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2012

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0806

FEDORA: 2012-0941