Fedora 15 : widelands-0-0.24.build16.fc15 (2011-6133)

high Nessus Plugin ID 53627

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Rebase to new upstream release build16

- Besides various enhancements this also fixes an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability, which could be exploited when connecting to malicious servers for internet play!

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 widelands package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684924

http://www.nessus.org/u?69147d75

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53627

File Name: fedora_2011-6133.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/3/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2011

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2011-6133