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Fedora 25 : lxterminal / menu-cache / pcmanfm (2017-6950ea5d05)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100228

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A potential security flaw is found on LXDE products, which create socket under /tmp with some predictable names, which may leads to DOS.
The security flow on lxterminal is now assigned as CVE-2016-10369.
Some other components also had similar issues. These new rpms should fix these issues.

At least relogin is required to make this fix effect.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected lxterminal, menu-cache and / or pcmanfm packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-6950ea5d05

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100228

File Name: fedora_2017-6950ea5d05.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/17/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcmanfm, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lxterminal, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:menu-cache

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10369, CVE-2017-8933, CVE-2017-8934