Fedora 19 : ngircd-20.3-1.fc19 (2013-15278)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69543

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix for a denial of service.

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 ngircd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000690

http://www.nessus.org/u?941e6b0a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69543

File Name: fedora_2013-15278.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/3/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/25/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5580

FEDORA: 2013-15278