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Fedora Core 3 : texinfo-4.8-2.2 (2005-990)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20025

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This package fixes a temporary file name vulnerability in the texindex program (CVE-2005-3011).

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 info, texinfo and / or texinfo-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?18aa52f2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20025

File Name: fedora_2005-990.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/19/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:texinfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:texinfo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:info, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-990