Fedora 11 : systemtap-1.1-1.fc11 (2010-0671)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 47193

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVE-2009-4273 (Bugzilla 550172):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-4273 New upstream release containing new features and bug fixes: better support for gcc 4.5 richer DWARF debuginfo, new preprocessor conditional for kernel 'CONFIG_*' testing, improved (experimental) unprivileged user support, new tapsets, better local-vs-global variable warnings, better return codes, bug fixes, and more...
http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2010-q1/msg00142.html

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 systemtap package.

See Also

http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2010-q1/msg00142.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-4273

http://www.nessus.org/u?c994724b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 47193

File Name: fedora_2010-0671.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:systemtap, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4273

CWE: 94

FEDORA: 2010-0671