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Fedora 16 : catdoc-0.94.2-10.fc16 (2012-17588)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62896

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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?b605e21e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62896

File Name: fedora_2012-17588.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2012

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:catdoc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2012

Reference Information

BID: 56466

FEDORA: 2012-17588