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Fedora 7 : konversation-1.0.1-4.fc7 (2008-2122)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31813

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

removes /usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts/media which can be used to execute commands via carefully crafted media

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 konversation package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253545

http://www.nessus.org/u?caddb1e6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31813

File Name: fedora_2008-2122.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4400

BID: 25281

FEDORA: 2008-2122