Fedora 8 : syslog-ng-2.0.7-1.fc8 (2008-0523)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 30027

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Contains a security fix for CVE-2007-6437/ZSA-2007-029 DoS

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 syslog-ng and / or syslog-ng-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=265221

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400661

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426306

http://www.nessus.org/u?7eadce29

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 30027

File Name: fedora_2008-0523.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:syslog-ng, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:syslog-ng-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6437

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2008-0523