Fedora 15 : apr-1.4.5-1.fc15 (2011-6750)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54944

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Various bug fixes since 1.4.2.

Security: CVE-2011-0419 Reimplement apr_fnmatch() from scratch using a non-recursive algorithm; now has improved compliance with the fnmatch() spec.

Note: 1.4.3 was never officially released.

Release -2 should fix top_builddir problem from -1.

Fix CVE-2011-1928 introduced in 1.4.4.

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 apr package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54944

File Name: fedora_2011-6750.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 6/3/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:apr

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0419, CVE-2011-1928

BID: 47820, 47929

FEDORA: 2011-6750

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