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Fedora 8 : jhead-2.84-1.fc8 (2008-8941)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34453

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Oct 16 2008 Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> - 2.84-1

 - updated to 2.84

 - fixes 'CVE-2008-4575 jhead buffer overflow' (#467262)

 - removed upstreamed makefile patch

 - Wed Sep 24 2008 Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> - 2.82-2

 - rebased makefile patch

 - Sat Apr 5 2008 Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> - 2.82-1

 - updated to 2.82

 - Mon Feb 18 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject.org> - 2.7-3

 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

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 jhead package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467262

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e8df76f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34453

File Name: fedora_2008-8941.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4575

BID: 31770

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-8941