Fedora 9 : wordpress-2.6.5-2.fc9 (2008-10483)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35013

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/

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 wordpress package.

See Also

https://wordpress.org/news/2008/11/wordpress-265/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473577

http://www.nessus.org/u?78879b4c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35013

File Name: fedora_2008-10483.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5278

BID: 32476

CWE: 79

FEDORA: 2008-10483