Fedora 8 : rsync-2.6.9-5.fc8 (2008-3047)

high Nessus Plugin ID 31972

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Apr 8 2008 Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> 2.6.9-5.fc8

- Security release:
http://rsync.samba.org/security.html#s3_0_2

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 rsync package.

See Also

http://rsync.samba.org/security.html#s3_0_2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441683

http://www.nessus.org/u?514fd4e9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31972

File Name: fedora_2008-3047.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rsync, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1720

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-3047