Fedora 7 : icu-3.6-20.fc7 (2008-1076)

high Nessus Plugin ID 30087

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2007-4770 & CVE-2007-4771 Flaws in icu regexp handling. Technical details can be found at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name= d03a2ffb0801221538x68825e42xb4a4aaf0fcccecbd%2540mail.gmail.com

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 icu package.

See Also

https://sourceforge.net/p/legacy_/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=

http://www.nessus.org/u?80f6f24f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 30087

File Name: fedora_2008-1076.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:icu, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4770, CVE-2007-4771

BID: 27455

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2008-1076