Fedora 11 : moin-1.8.4-1.fc11 (2009-6576)

high Nessus Plugin ID 39458

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This package updates Moin to 1.8.4, http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinRelease1.8 has a list of changes. This package includes a security fix for a hierarchical ACL vulnerability (hierarchical is not the default ACL mode), http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes has the details of the fix.

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 moin package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39458

File Name: fedora_2009-6576.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 6/19/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:moin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2009

Reference Information

BID: 35277

FEDORA: 2009-6576

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