Fedora 14 : pidgin-2.9.0-1.fc14 (2011-8917)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55558

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New release 2.9.0

Full Upstream ChangeLog :

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog New release 2.8.0

Full Upstream ChangeLog :

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

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55558

File Name: fedora_2011-8917.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/12/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2011

Reference Information

BID: 48425

FEDORA: 2011-8917

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