Fedora 12 : rpm-4.7.2-2.fc12 (2010-10617)

high Nessus Plugin ID 47611

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Jun 30 2010 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
- 4.7.2-2

- Fix CVE-2010-2059 (#598775) and CVE-2010-2198 (#601955)

- Tue Dec 8 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> - 4.7.2-1

- update to 4.7.2 (http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.7.2)

- fix posix chmod test to unbreak %fixperms macro (#543035)

- avoid looking into OpenPGP subkeys (#436812)

- dont fail build on unrecognized non-executable files (#532489)

- fix password check result when gpg is missing (#496754)

- permit python to handle 64bit integer types from headers

- all header integer types are unsigned, match this in python too

- return python long objects where ints are not sufficient (#531243)

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 rpm package.

See Also

http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.7.2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598775

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601955

http://www.nessus.org/u?76a3357c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47611

File Name: fedora_2010-10617.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/7/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rpm, 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: 7/1/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2059, CVE-2010-2198

BID: 40512

FEDORA: 2010-10617