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Fedora 25 : glibc (2017-79414fefa1) (Stack Clash)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101015

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses CVE-2017-1000366, a vulnerability in the dynamic linker allowing local privilege escalation.

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 glibc package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-79414fefa1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101015

File Name: fedora_2017-79414fefa1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000366