Fedora 8 : vsftpd-2.0.5-20.fc8 (2008-4347)

high Nessus Plugin ID 32436

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed May 21 2008 Martin Nagy <mnagy at redhat.com> - 2.0.5-20

- fix a small memory leak (#397011)

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 vsftpd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011

http://www.nessus.org/u?6d8c9a3c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 32436

File Name: fedora_2008-4347.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:vsftpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5962

BID: 29322

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2008-4347