Fedora 8 : yelp-2.20.0-12.fc8 (2008-7293)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34126

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a format string vulnerability that was discovered in yelp 2.20.

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 yelp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459487

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c980afa

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34126

File Name: fedora_2008-7293.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:yelp, 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: 9/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3533

BID: 30690

CWE: 134

FEDORA: 2008-7293