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Fedora 18 : exim-4.80.1-1.fc18 (2012-16899)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62865

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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?398e9bec

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62865

File Name: fedora_2012-16899.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/9/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:exim

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5671

FEDORA: 2012-16899