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Fedora 17 : exim-4.76-9.fc17 (2012-17044)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62754

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit, CVE-2012-5671.

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 exim package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870347

http://www.nessus.org/u?e45159ee

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62754

File Name: fedora_2012-17044.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2012

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:exim, 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: 10/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5671

BID: 56146, 56285

FEDORA: 2012-17044