Fedora 11 : libsilc-1.1.8-7.fc11 (2009-9342)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40908

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Sep 4 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 1.1.8-7

- Backport patch to fix stack corruption (CVE-2008-7160) (#521256)

- Fri Sep 4 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 1.1.8-6

- Backport patch to fix additional string format vulnerabilities (#515648)

- Wed Aug 5 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 1.1.8-5

- Backport patch to fix string format vulnerability (#515648)

- Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.8-4

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

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 libsilc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515648

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521256

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

http://www.nessus.org/u?bec5a0b2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40908

File Name: fedora_2009-9342.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libsilc, 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: 9/6/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-7160

BID: 36194

CWE: 134

FEDORA: 2009-9342