Fedora 15 : mhonarc-2.6.18-3.fc15 (2011-3344)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52727

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to latest stable release :

- Fixes CVE-2010-1677 mhonarc: remote DoS via certain tags

- Fixes CVE-2010-4524 MHonArc: Improper escaping of certain HTML sequences (XSS)

- Fixes dealing with ISO-2022-JP charset.

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 mhonarc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664718

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667478

http://www.nessus.org/u?6f113128

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52727

File Name: fedora_2011-3344.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/21/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mhonarc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1677, CVE-2010-4524

BID: 45528

FEDORA: 2011-3344