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Fedora 29 : elfutils (2018-91382c7bd3)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120617

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Add support for ELF version, gnu property and gnu attrbutes notes. Fix eu-strip/eu-unstrip section group handling. Fixes CVE-2018-18310, CVE-2018-18520 and CVE-2018-18521.

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Solution

Update the affected elfutils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-91382c7bd3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120617

File Name: fedora_2018-91382c7bd3.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18521

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18520

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:elfutils

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: 11/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18310, CVE-2018-18520, CVE-2018-18521