Fedora 11 : apr-1.3.8-1.fc11 (2009-8336)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 40514

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2009-2412: allocator alignment fixes Full details here:
http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/patches/

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 apr package.

See Also

http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/patches/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515698

http://www.nessus.org/u?1160ae48

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 40514

File Name: fedora_2009-8336.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2412

BID: 35949

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2009-8336