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Fedora Core 4 : devhelp-0.10-1.4.2 (2005-928)

🗓️ 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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The host is missing a security update for devhelp packages in Fedora Core 4 (2005-928). It is advised to upgrade to the updated package which has been rebuilt against a version of mozilla not vulnerable to security flaws

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2005-928.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(19873);
  script_version("1.13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2005-928");

  script_name(english:"Fedora Core 4 : devhelp-0.10-1.4.2 (2005-928)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"There were several security flaws found in the mozilla package, which
devhelp depends on. Users of devhelp are advised to upgrade to this
updated package which has been rebuilt against a version of mozilla
not vulnerable to these flaws.

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."
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2005-September/001415.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?56103488"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Update the affected devhelp, devhelp-debuginfo and / or devhelp-devel
packages."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:devhelp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:devhelp-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:devhelp-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/09/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/10/05");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 4.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"devhelp-0.10-1.4.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"devhelp-debuginfo-0.10-1.4.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"devhelp-devel-0.10-1.4.2")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "devhelp / devhelp-debuginfo / devhelp-devel");
}

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