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Fedora 15 : xinetd-2.3.14-37.fc15 (2012-8041)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59297

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix tcpmux security

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 xinetd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790940

http://www.nessus.org/u?4e4d6e96

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59297

File Name: fedora_2012-8041.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/30/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0862

FEDORA: 2012-8041