Detections
Analytics
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 DoSNote 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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 30027
File Name: fedora_2008-0523.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 1/21/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:syslog-ng-debuginfo
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