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Fedora Extras : ssmtp-2.61-11fc[5,6,devel]

high Nessus Plugin ID 62282

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Ben XO discovered that during the AUTH LOGIN phase, ssmtp <= 2.61-10 leaks (in BASE64 encoded form) the password used. Details are available at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369542

Fedora Extras versions earlier then the version mentioned above are vulnerable to this problem, upgrade to fix this vulnerability.

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 ssmtp package.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369542

http://www.nessus.org/u?afa46c34

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62282

File Name: fedora_extras_ssmtp_2006-001.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ssmtp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/9/2006