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Fedora 27 : coreutils (2018-669520d2ba)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106514

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- doc: warn about following symlinks recursively in chown/chgrp (CVE-2017-18018)

 - mv -n: do not overwrite the destination

 - mv -n: provide more reliable diagnostic messages

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 coreutils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-669520d2ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106514

File Name: fedora_2018-669520d2ba.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/31/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:coreutils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18018