Fedora 18 : libXi-1.6.2.901-1.fc18 (2013-9108)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66744

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Udpate to libXi-1.6.2.901 to fix CVE-2013-1984, CVE-2013-1995, CVE-2013-1998

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 libXi package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959049

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960346

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960357

http://www.nessus.org/u?7269e912

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66744

File Name: fedora_2013-9108.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2013

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: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxi, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1984, CVE-2013-1995, CVE-2013-1998

BID: 60123, 60124, 60127

FEDORA: 2013-9108