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Fedora 12 : gmime22-2.2.23-8.fc12 (2010-1484)

high Nessus Plugin ID 47257

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Buffer overflow by calculating the maximum number of output bytes generated by an uuencode operation (bz #561457)

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 gmime22 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561457

http://www.nessus.org/u?3a5cc19f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47257

File Name: fedora_2010-1484.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 4/2/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gmime22, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2010

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2010-1484