Fedora 13 : fetchmail-6.3.20-1.fc13 (2011-8059)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55393

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2011-1947.

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 fetchmail package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709284

http://www.nessus.org/u?af42da76

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55393

File Name: fedora_2011-8059.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/22/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1947

FEDORA: 2011-8059