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Fedora 12 : coreutils-7.6-8.fc12 (2009-13181)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43331

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2009-4135 : Unsafe temporary directory use in 'distcheck' rule

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 coreutils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545439

http://www.nessus.org/u?bdbdc7f1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43331

File Name: fedora_2009-13181.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:coreutils, 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-2009-4135

BID: 37256

CWE: 59

FEDORA: 2009-13181