Fedora 16 : xchat-ruby-1.2-11.fc16 (2012-1334)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57904

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes a remote-triggerable NULL pointer dereference (occurs under certain conditions; see the bug for more details).

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 xchat-ruby package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787298

http://www.nessus.org/u?7f43b01a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57904

File Name: fedora_2012-1334.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/13/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xchat-ruby, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-1334