Fedora 10 : psi-0.12.1-1.fc10 (2009-2285)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 36996

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a bugfix-only update to version 0.12.1 New in 0.12.1 - Bugfix for DOS vulnerability in the file transfer code. Thanks to Jesus Olmos (jolmos at isecauditors.com)

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 psi package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488299

http://www.nessus.org/u?fea3ea8b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 36996

File Name: fedora_2009-2285.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:psi, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-6393

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2009-2285