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Fedora 13 : pidgin-2.7.9-1.fc13 (2010-19317)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51441

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New release 2.7.9

Upstream ChangeLog :

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

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 pidgin package.

See Also

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665421

http://www.nessus.org/u?097feb76

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51441

File Name: fedora_2010-19317.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/10/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/30/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4528

BID: 45581

FEDORA: 2010-19317