Fedora 14 : cyrus-imapd-2.3.18-1.fc14 (2011-13869)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56489

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- cyrus-imapd updated to 2.3.18

- fixes incomplete authentication checks in nntpd (Secunia SA46093)

- fix CVE-2011-3208: a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in nntpd

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 cyrus-imapd package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56489

File Name: fedora_2011-13869.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2011

Reference Information

BID: 49534

FEDORA: 2011-13869

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