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Fedora 24 : perltidy (2017-1f11501a9f)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 100741

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Cumulative bug-fix, enhancement and security update, including fix for CVE-2016-10374: perltidy relies on the current working directory for certain output files and did not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim could not delete.

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 perltidy package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-1f11501a9f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 100741

File Name: fedora_2017-1f11501a9f.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perltidy, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10374