Fedora 20 : xdialog-2.3.1-13.fc20 (2013-22652)

high Nessus Plugin ID 71417

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes a format string issue. argv[0] was injected unchecked into a format string.

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 xdialog package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037393

http://www.nessus.org/u?e6b42c11

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 71417

File Name: fedora_2013-22652.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xdialog, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2013

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2013-22652