Fedora Core 5 : xterm-223-1.fc5 (2007-024)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24187

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Jan 8 2007 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com>
- 223-1.fc5

- update to 223

- use correct tty group (#219048)

- spec cleanup

- Thu Nov 23 2006 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> - 213-2.fc5

- fix segfault when /etc/termcap is missing (#201246)

- Wed May 31 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias at redhat.com>
- 213-1

- Upgrade to upstream version 213 (fixes bug 192627)

- fix bug 189161 : make -r/-rv do reverseVideo with or without xterm*{fore,back}ground set

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 xterm and / or xterm-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8dbab0a7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24187

File Name: fedora_2007-024.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xterm, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xterm-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-024