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Fedora 17 : pidgin-2.10.5-1.fc17 (2012-10287)

high Nessus Plugin ID 59941

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New release 2.10.5

Full Upstream ChangeLog :

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

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 pidgin package.

See Also

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837319

http://www.nessus.org/u?4d0ab5c8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59941

File Name: fedora_2012-10287.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/11/2012

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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3374

BID: 54322

FEDORA: 2012-10287