Fedora 7 : duplicity-0.4.9-1.fc7 (2008-1584)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31073

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

WARNING: Command line syntax incompatibility! See e.g.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00056 .html for furhter information. - Upgrade to 0.4.9 - Duplicity discloses password in FTP backend (CVE-2007-5201) - Several bug and problem fixes

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 duplicity package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081

http://www.nessus.org/u?b1a1affc

http://www.nessus.org/u?c302a51d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31073

File Name: fedora_2008-1584.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/14/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:duplicity, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5201

CWE: 200

FEDORA: 2008-1584