Fedora 9 : DevIL-1.7.5-2.fc9 (2009-0856)

high Nessus Plugin ID 35441

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix missing symbols (rh 480269) - Fix off by one error in CVE-2008-5262 check (rh 479864)

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 DevIL package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479864

http://www.nessus.org/u?3b54294c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 35441

File Name: fedora_2009-0856.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/22/2009

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5262

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-0856