vulnerability ?
Anthony J Placilla
anthony_placilla at SUTH.COM
Tue Oct 3 20:13:44 UTC 2006
norm wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:40:49 -0500
> Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 19:58 -0700, norm wrote:
>>> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:11:24 +0800
>>> Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> norm wrote:
>>>>> I recently ran a security scan on my system and the result in
>>>>> part was The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory
>>>>> FEDORA-2006-172 (xorg-x11-server). It advises me to update my
>>>>> system using the latest from Fedora. To the best of my
>>>>> knowledge I am running a fully patched system with
>>>>> 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5. This is a vulnerability that I understand to
>>>>> have been around for a while and I assume in the intervening 6
>>>>> months or so it has been patched. Does anyone know if this
>>>>> vulnerability is a false positive?
>>>> Is your xorg-x11-server-Xorg 1.0.1-9.fc5.5?
>>>>
>>> Ed
>>> How do I find out if it is? From what I can figure out it is not,
>>> but that is only a guess.
>>>
>> If you have been doing the routine yum updates then it 'should' be up
>> to date.
>>
>> To check it run "rpm -qa xorg-x11-serv\* " and it will tell you what
>> versions all the x11 servers are. Mine are
>> $ rpm -qa xorg-x11-serv\*
>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-9.fc5.5
>> xorg-x11-server-utils-1.0.1-1.2
>> xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.0.1-9.fc5.5
>> xorg-x11-server-sdk-1.0.1-9.fc5.5
>> xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.0.1-9.fc5.5
>>
>>
> I catch is I have been yum updates are run regularly. It is because
> yum runs regularly that I am surprised it is not uptodate. Other
> applications etc are updated regularly by the same process and I assume
> are uptodate.
> # rpm -qa xorg-x11-serv\*
> xorg-x11-server-utils-1.0.1-1.2
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-9.fc5.5
>
no worries mate. looks like it's patched
rpm -q --changelog xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-9.fc5.5 | grep -i -A4 -B4 cve
* Wed Mar 15 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> 1.0.1-9
- CVE-2006-0745 (bug 185084)
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0745
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