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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes Nagios Plugins Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Nagios Plugins Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1263
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5198
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-18

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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system [...]

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/

ChangeLog

2008-04-18 : Initial release

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