Fedora 15 : httpcomponents-client-4.1.1-2.fc15 (2011-7747)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55147

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This updated fixes several bug. See http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES-4.1 .x.txt for details

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 httpcomponents-client package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2b960bf2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709531

http://www.nessus.org/u?789070ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55147

File Name: fedora_2011-7747.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/16/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1498

BID: 46974

FEDORA: 2011-7747