Fedora 17 : boost-1.48.0-14.fc17 (2013-2420)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64854

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes classifying incomplete UTF-8 sequences in Boost.Locale.

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 boost package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907481

http://www.nessus.org/u?33756309

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64854

File Name: fedora_2013-2420.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 2/14/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0252

BID: 57675

FEDORA: 2013-2420