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Fedora 19 : gpsd-3.9-1.fc19 (2013-7276)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66367

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update to the latest upstream release, which fixes a denial of service flaw found in the way AIS driver packet parser processed certain malformed packets.

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 gpsd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958717

http://www.nessus.org/u?a3f26092

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66367

File Name: fedora_2013-7276.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gpsd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2013

Reference Information

BID: 59611

FEDORA: 2013-7276