Fedora Core 2 : gaim-1.2.1-1.fc2 (2005-298)

high Nessus Plugin ID 18332

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog gaim-1.2.1 resolves CVE-2005-0965 and CVE-2005-0966 as well as some crashes in the jabber and yahoo protocols. Read upstream's pages above for more details.

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 gaim and / or gaim-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog

http://www.nessus.org/u?e399e025

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18332

File Name: fedora_2005-298.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gaim, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gaim-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-298