Fedora 7 : pidgin-2.2.1-1.fc7 (2007-2368)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27770

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Minor DOS fix and a great many other bug fixes in upstream's 2.2.1 release.

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

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?76a415a0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27770

File Name: fedora_2007-2368.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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:finch, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:finch-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpurple, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpurple-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpurple-perl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpurple-tcl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin-perl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4996

FEDORA: 2007-2368