Fedora Core 6 : cpio-2.6-22.fc6 (2007-742)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27639

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Nov 2 2007 Radek Brich <rbrich at redhat.com> 2.6-22

- patch for CVE-2007-4476 (stack crashing in safer_name_suffix)

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 cpio and / or cpio-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6f432124

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27639

File Name: fedora_2007-742.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cpio, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cpio-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-742