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Fedora 12 : merkaartor-0.14-2.fc12 (2009-13196)

low Nessus Plugin ID 43166

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a possible symlink attack on the debug log merkaartor.log by no longer writing it out by default.

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 merkaartor package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544284

http://www.nessus.org/u?8267be0a

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 43166

File Name: fedora_2009-13196.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/16/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:merkaartor, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4193

BID: 36529

CWE: 59

FEDORA: 2009-13196