Fedora 8 : newsx-1.6-8.fc8 (2008-6319)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 33514

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Sat Jul 12 2008 Dominik Mierzejewski <rpm at greysector.net> 1.6-8

- fixed stack-based buffer overflow in getarticle.c (#454483)

- URL no longer exists

- restored the use of history

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 newsx package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454483

http://www.nessus.org/u?01de1431

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 33514

File Name: fedora_2008-6319.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3252

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-6319