Fedora 8 : exiv2-0.15-5.fc8 (2007-4551)

high Nessus Plugin ID 29757

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Dec 17 2007 Rex Dieter <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 0.15-5

- CVE-2007-6353 (#425922)

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=425921

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425922

http://www.nessus.org/u?38ef90c2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 29757

File Name: fedora_2007-4551.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/24/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:exiv2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:exiv2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:exiv2-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:exiv2-libs, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6353

BID: 26918

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2007-4551