Fedora 8 : glib2-2.14.3-1.fc8 (2007-2944)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27820

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The latest stable upstream release of GLib includes a new version of PCRE, which fixes several vulnerabilities.

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?a281e902

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27820

File Name: fedora_2007-2944.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glib2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glib2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glib2-static, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-2944