Fedora 13 : gromacs-4.5.2-2.fc13 (2010-17256)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50591

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix upgrade path issue caused by branching of libs. Upgrade to 4.5.2, fixing CVE-2010-4001 and a bunch of other bugs. See full release notes at http://www.gromacs.org/About_Gromacs/Release_Notes/Versions_4.5.x .

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 gromacs package.

See Also

http://www.gromacs.org/About_Gromacs/Release_Notes/Versions_4.5.x

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644596

http://www.nessus.org/u?0b5cb69a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50591

File Name: fedora_2010-17256.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/15/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gromacs, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4001

FEDORA: 2010-17256