Fedora Core 5 : texinfo-4.8-9.2.fc5.2 (2006-1202)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24048

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Sun Nov 5 2006 Miloslav Trmac <mitr at redhat.com> - 4.8-9.2.fc5.2

- Remove off-line sorting from texindex (fixes CVE-2006-4810)

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 info, texinfo and / or texinfo-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5e9a8963

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24048

File Name: fedora_2006-1202.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:info, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:texinfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:texinfo-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-1202