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Fedora 17 : lighttpd-1.4.31-1.fc17 (2012-9040)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59689

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2011-4362 by updating to the latest release. It also fixes problems that had been reported with previous releases, such as ssl-related crashes on startup. This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug. This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug. This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug.

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 lighttpd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758624

http://www.nessus.org/u?28c4e40a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59689

File Name: fedora_2012-9040.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lighttpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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: 6/7/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4362

BID: 50851

FEDORA: 2012-9040