Fedora 8 : htop-0.8.1-2.fc8 (2008-9791)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34835

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Nov 18 2008 Rafa Psota <rafalzaq at gmail.com> - 0.8.1-2

- non-printable character filter patch (#504144)

- Tue Oct 14 2008 Rafa Psota <rafalzaq at gmail.com> - 0.8.1-1

- update to 0.8.1

- Thu Jul 31 2008 Rafa Psota <rafalzaq at gmail.com> - 0.8-1

- udate to 0.8

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 htop package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471952

http://www.nessus.org/u?15ea4214

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34835

File Name: fedora_2008-9791.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

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:htop, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5076

CWE: 200

FEDORA: 2008-9791