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Fedora 8 : xscreensaver-5.03-14.fc8 (2007-2891)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27812

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Related to bug 336331, another case is found which causes xscreensaver password dialog crash. This time a patch from upstream developer is applied and this release 'really' fixes this problem.

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336331

http://www.nessus.org/u?556d67e3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27812

File Name: fedora_2007-2891.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

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:xscreensaver, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xscreensaver-base, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xscreensaver-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xscreensaver-extras, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xscreensaver-extras-gss, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xscreensaver-gl-base, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xscreensaver-gl-extras, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5585

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2007-2891