Fedora 8 : xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-46.fc8 (2008-5279)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 33180

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

For further details, see X.org security advisory:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-June/036026.html

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 xorg-x11-server package.

See Also

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-June/036026.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445403

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445414

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448783

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448784

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448785

http://www.nessus.org/u?bad471f1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 33180

File Name: fedora_2008-5279.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/16/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xorg-x11-server, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1377, CVE-2008-1379, CVE-2008-2360, CVE-2008-2361, CVE-2008-2362

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2008-5279