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Fedora 9 : libtirpc-0.1.7-20.fc9 (2008-9204)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34671

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes :

 - Bug #468014 - CVE-2008-4619 libtirpc: rpcbind DoS in the taddr2uaddr XDR_DECODE

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 libtirpc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468014

http://www.nessus.org/u?ebf422ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34671

File Name: fedora_2008-9204.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/31/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtirpc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4619

BID: 21964

FEDORA: 2008-9204