Fedora 17 : ssmtp-2.61-20.fc17 (2013-10128)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67267

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Removes world read access from the configuration file thus prohibiting reading of the password stored inside it.

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962988

http://www.nessus.org/u?c072db6a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67267

File Name: fedora_2013-10128.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

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:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2013

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2013-10128