Fedora 15 : pidgin-2.10.1-1.fc15 (2011-17546)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57450

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New release 2.10.1

Full Upstream ChangeLog :

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

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 pidgin package.

See Also

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742450

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761510

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761517

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=766446

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1f3eb4b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57450

File Name: fedora_2011-17546.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/30/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3594, CVE-2011-4601, CVE-2011-4602, CVE-2011-4603

BID: 49912, 51010, 51070, 51074

FEDORA: 2011-17546