Fedora 13 : perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.fc13 (2011-0062)

high Nessus Plugin ID 51577

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Perl extension Convert::UUlib 1.34 :

- Fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther)

- Quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix

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 perl-Convert-UUlib package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?96cbff11

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 51577

File Name: fedora_2011-0062.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-convert-uulib, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2011

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2011-0062