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Fedora 21 : mailx-12.5-14.fc21 (2014-17243)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80343

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844

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 mailx package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162783

http://www.nessus.org/u?f4678aad

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80343

File Name: fedora_2014-17243.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/5/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mailx, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844

BID: 71701, 71704

FEDORA: 2014-17243