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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64719
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8815 (neon)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to neon;announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8815.;Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to neon
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8815.
Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional.

Vulnerability Insight:
Update Information:

This update includes the latest release of neon, version 0.28.6.
This fixes two security issues:

* the billion laughs attack against expat could allow
a Denial of Service attack by a malicious server. (CVE-2009-2473)

* an embedded NUL byte in a certificate subject name could allow an
undetected MITM attack against an SSL server if a trusted CA
issues such a cert.

ChangeLog:

* Wed Aug 19 2009 Joe Orton 0.28.6-1

- update to 0.26.1

* Thu Jul 9 2009 Joe Orton 0.28.5-1

- update to 0.28.5 (#502451, #491839)

Solution:
Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update neon' at the command line.

CVSS Score:
4.3

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2473
36371
http://secunia.com/advisories/36371
ADV-2009-2341
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2341
APPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
FEDORA-2009-8794
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00924.html
FEDORA-2009-8815
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00945.html
MDVSA-2009:221
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:221
RHSA-2013:0131
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0131.html
SUSE-SR:2009:018
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
[neon] 20090818 CVE-2009-2473: fix for "billion laughs" attack against expat
http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001045.html
[neon] 20090818 neon: release 0.28.6 (SECURITY)
http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
neon-xml-dos(52633)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52633
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9461
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9461
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