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Fedora 20 : geary-0.6.3-1.fc20 (2014-10451)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79342

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Warn user of TLS certificate issues when connecting (#713247)

 - Compile with Vala 0.25 and better

Update Geary to the latest stable version 0.6.2. Changes include :

 - Patch a major memory leak (due to GMime bindings)

 - Stabilize search sorting to prevent dropped search results

 - Prevent Inbox from being cleared on startup w/ Dovecot, Zimbra, Cyrus, etc.

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 geary package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a6faf075

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79342

File Name: fedora_2014-10451.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/20/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:geary, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2014

Reference Information

BID: 70318

FEDORA: 2014-10451