Fedora 9 : pidgin-2.5.6-1.fc9 (2009-5552)

high Nessus Plugin ID 38995

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a bugfix & security fix release of Pidgin. The full ChangeLog is available at http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Details of the security fixes included are available at http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/

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 pidgin package.

See Also

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500488

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500490

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500491

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500493

http://www.nessus.org/u?129e9b18

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 38995

File Name: fedora_2009-5552.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin, 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: 5/28/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2927, CVE-2009-1373, CVE-2009-1374, CVE-2009-1375, CVE-2009-1376

BID: 35067

CWE: 119, 189

FEDORA: 2009-5552