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Fedora 18 : catdoc-0.94.2-10.fc18 (2012-17499)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62853

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix security issue (buffer overflow).

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 catdoc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872390

http://www.nessus.org/u?317691f0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62853

File Name: fedora_2012-17499.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2012

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:catdoc

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-17499