Fedora Core 6 : dbus-1.0.1-8.fc6 (2006-1475)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24078

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Kimmo Hamalainen reported a DoS flaw in D-Bus that can cause a local user to disable the the ability of another process to receive certain messages. This flaw does not contain any potential for arbitrary code execution.

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24078

File Name: fedora_2006-1475.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dbus-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dbus, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dbus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dbus-x11

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-1475

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