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Fedora 9 : dia-0.96.1-7.fc9 (2009-1057)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35466

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Filter out untrusted python modules search path to remove the possibility to run arbitrary code on the user's system if there is a python file in dia's working directory named the same as one that dia's python scripts try to import.

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 dia package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481551

http://www.nessus.org/u?a2a158ed

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35466

File Name: fedora_2009-1057.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dia, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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: 1/27/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5984

BID: 33448

FEDORA: 2009-1057