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Fedora 26 : file (2017-bb4c07b01a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103118

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- fix a possible stack based buffer overflow (CVE-2017-1000249)

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 file package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-bb4c07b01a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103118

File Name: fedora_2017-bb4c07b01a.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:file, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000249