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Fedora 8 : PolicyKit-0.6-2.fc8 (2008-2987)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31822

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2008-1658: PolicyKit: format string vulnerability

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected PolicyKit package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439982

http://www.nessus.org/u?296bdd40

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31822

File Name: fedora_2008-2987.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:policykit, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1658

CWE: 134

FEDORA: 2008-2987