Fedora 11 : xml-security-c-1.5.1-1.fc11 (2009-8157)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40454

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVE-2009-0217 (#511915)

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 xml-security-c package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511915

http://www.nessus.org/u?fbeea2b1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40454

File Name: fedora_2009-8157.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/1/2009

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:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xml-security-c, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0217

BID: 35671

FEDORA: 2009-8157