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Fedora 11 : irssi-0.8.13-3.fc11 (2009-7012)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40474

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Jun 23 2009 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas at redhat.com> - 0.8.13-3

 - Resolve CVE-2009-1959

 - Fri May 1 2009 Marek Mahut <mmahut at fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.13-1

 - Upstream release

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Solution

Update the affected irssi package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?45ce2bea

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504554

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40474

File Name: fedora_2009-7012.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:irssi, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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: 6/27/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1959

BID: 35399

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2009-7012