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Fedora 20 : mailx-12.5-11.fc20 (2014-17245)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80344

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844

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 mailx package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162783

http://www.nessus.org/u?62c95912

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80344

File Name: fedora_2014-17245.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/5/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844

BID: 71704, 71701

FEDORA: 2014-17245