Fedora 9 : boinc-client-6.4.5-2.20081217svn.fc9 (2009-0578)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35593

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix security bug BZ#479664.

- Update to 6.4.5

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 boinc-client package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479664

http://www.nessus.org/u?17e73d22

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35593

File Name: fedora_2009-0578.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/5/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:boinc-client, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0126

BID: 33151

CWE: 287

FEDORA: 2009-0578