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Fedora 12 : gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-1.fc12 (2010-1855)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47277

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

gnome-screensaver can lose its keyboard grab when locked, exposing the system to intrusion by adding and removing monitors.

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 gnome-screensaver package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564464

http://www.nessus.org/u?f345b475

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47277

File Name: fedora_2010-1855.nasl

Version: 1.10

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0422

FEDORA: 2010-1855