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Fedora Core 5 : spamassassin-3.1.9-1.fc5.1 (2007-584)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25509

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Local symlink vulnerability. Fedora is not vulnerable in any default or common configurations. Read upstream's announcement for details.

http://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/CVE-2007-2873.txt

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 spamassassin and / or spamassassin-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://spamassassin.apache.org/404.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?069c9bec

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25509

File Name: fedora_2007-584.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/14/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:spamassassin-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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: 6/12/2007

Exploitable With

Metasploit (SpamAssassin spamd Remote Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2447

FEDORA: 2007-584