Fedora 26 : coreutils (2017-b17d54561b)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 101702

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- tail: revert to polling if a followed directory is replaced (#1283760)

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- date, touch: fix out-of-bounds write via large TZ variable (CVE-2017-7476)

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- do not obsolete coreutils-single, so it can be installed by DNF2 (#1444802)

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Solution

Update the affected coreutils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-b17d54561b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 101702

File Name: fedora_2017-b17d54561b.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:coreutils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7476