Detections
Analytics

Fedora 20 : libXfont-1.4.7-1.fc20 (2014-0443)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71918

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

libXfont 1.4.7, fixes potential stack overflow (CVE-2013-6462), see http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2014-January/056265.html

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 libXfont package.

See Also

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2014-January/056265.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?e80eac47

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71918

File Name: fedora_2014-0443.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/13/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxfont

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2014

Reference Information

BID: 64694

FEDORA: 2014-0443