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Fedora 16 : libytnef-1.5-8.fc16 (2012-10286)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59975

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix possible buffer overflow.

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 libytnef package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831322

http://www.nessus.org/u?5b2bd8a4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59975

File Name: fedora_2012-10286.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-5109

FEDORA: 2012-10286