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Fedora 7 : wesnoth-1.2.7-1.fc7 (2007-2496)
high Nessus Plugin ID 27774
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
Security fix release: A malicious user could send a long chat message with multibyte characters, the server would truncate the message on a fixed length, without paying attention to the multibyte characters.This led to invalid utf-8 on the client and an uncaught exception was thrown.
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 packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 27774
File Name: fedora_2007-2496.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 11/6/2007
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wesnoth, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wesnoth-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wesnoth-server, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wesnoth-tools, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-3917