Fedora 17 : freeciv-2.3.3-1.fc17 (2012-20610)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63388

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix DoS security flaw.

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 freeciv package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888331

http://www.nessus.org/u?711ae84b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63388

File Name: fedora_2012-20610.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2013

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: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freeciv, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5645

FEDORA: 2012-20610