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Fedora 31 : oddjob (2020-b1fa09aa64)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136756

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes a security fix for CVE-2020-10737. Additionally,

From 0.34.6 :

 - update license on src/buffer.h

 - changes '/var/run' to '/run' in systemd service file (Orion Poplawski, #1834511)

From 0.34.5 :

 - apply patch from Matthias Gerstner of the SUSE security team to fix a possible race condition in the mkhomedir helper (noted above, this fixes CVE-2020-10737)

 - only process SELinux contexts if SELinux is not disabled (Alexander Bokovoy, #1828855)

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 oddjob package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-b1fa09aa64

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136756

File Name: fedora_2020-b1fa09aa64.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/21/2020

Updated: 6/5/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10737

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:oddjob, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10737