Fedora 9 : xine-lib-1.1.16.2-1.fc9.1 (2009-1524)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35670

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release contains one new security fix (CVE-2008-5240) and corrections of previous security fixes. It also includes fixes for race conditions in gapless_switch (ref. kde bug #180339) See also:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=9655&release_id= 660071

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 xine-lib package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6274100f

http://www.nessus.org/u?7515f023

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35670

File Name: fedora_2009-1524.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/13/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2009

Reference Information

BID: 30797, 33502

FEDORA: 2009-1524