Fedora 14 : pidgin-2.10.0-1.fc14 (2011-11595)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56101

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New release 2.10.0

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.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732405

http://www.nessus.org/u?7c91cb05

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56101

File Name: fedora_2011-11595.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3184

FEDORA: 2011-11595