Fedora 12 : gzip-1.3.12-14.fc12 (2010-0884)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47201

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2009-2624 and CVE-2010-0001 vulnerabilities.

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 gzip package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514711

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554418

http://www.nessus.org/u?cccda96c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47201

File Name: fedora_2010-0884.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gzip, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2624, CVE-2010-0001

BID: 37886, 37888

CWE: 189, 20

FEDORA: 2010-0884