Fedora 9 : uw-imap-2007d-1.fc9 (2008-9396)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34707

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Addresses a security vulnerability in tmail and dmail:
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002267 .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 uw-imap package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c83b2a7a

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667

http://www.nessus.org/u?bdcb1532

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34707

File Name: fedora_2008-9396.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:uw-imap, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5005

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-9396