Fedora 12 : mimetex-1.71-1.fc12 (2010-6546)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 47439

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Oct 1 2009 Jorge Torres <jtorresh at gmail.com> - 1.71-1

- Update to 1.71

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 mimetex package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511049

http://www.nessus.org/u?f5b128b3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 47439

File Name: fedora_2010-6546.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mimetex, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1382, CVE-2009-2459

BID: 36631, 36632

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2010-6546