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Fedora 12 : DeviceKit-power-014-2.fc12 / ModemManager-0.4-5.git20100720.fc12 / etc (2010-12911)

low Nessus Plugin ID 48391

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

It was discovered that dbus-glib did not enforce the 'access' flag on exported GObject properties. If such a property were read/write internally but specified as read-only externally, a malicious, local user could use this flaw to modify that property of an application.
Such a change could impact the application's behavior (for example, if an IP address were changed the network may not come up properly after reboot) and possibly lead to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-1172) Due to the way dbus-glib translates an application's XML definitions of service interfaces and properties into C code at application build time, applications built against dbus-glib that use read-only properties needed to be rebuilt to fully fix the flaw. This update provides NetworkManager, ModemManager and DeviceKit-power packages that have been rebuilt against the updated dbus-glib packages.

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585394

http://www.nessus.org/u?5ccebde1

http://www.nessus.org/u?60d3aac4

http://www.nessus.org/u?4f8c5256

http://www.nessus.org/u?8421f4f4

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 48391

File Name: fedora_2010-12911.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:modemmanager, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dbus-glib, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:networkmanager, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:devicekit-power

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1172

BID: 42347

FEDORA: 2010-12911