Fedora 15 : libvoikko-3.2.1-1.fc15 (2011-8227)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55475

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Backport a security fix from version 3.2.1: Fix handling of embedded null characters in input strings entered through the Python interface.
The bug could be used to cause denial of service conditions and possibly other problems. Users of these interfaces are recommended to upgrade to this release. Applications that use the native C++ library directly (this includes all well known desktop applications) are not affected by this bug and no changes to the native library have been made in this release.

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 libvoikko package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?01964be7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55475

File Name: fedora_2011-8227.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libvoikko, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2011

Reference Information

BID: 48258

FEDORA: 2011-8227