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Fedora 14 : glibc-2.12.90-17 (2010-16308)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50036

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Implement accurate fma (BZ#3268, #43358)

 - Fix alignment of AVX save area on x86-64 (BZ#12113)

 - Fix regex memory leaks (BZ#12078)

 - Improve output of psiginfo (BZ#12107, BZ#12108)

 - Don't return NULL address in getifaddrs (BZ#12093)

 - Fix strstr and memmem algorithm (BZ#12092, #641124)

 - Don't discard result of decoding ACE if AI_CANONIDN (#636642)

 - Never expand $ORIGIN in privileged programs (#643306, CVE-2010-3847)

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 glibc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643306

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fe9fbe1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50036

File Name: fedora_2010-16308.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2010

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (glibc "$ORIGIN" Expansion Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3847

BID: 44154

FEDORA: 2010-16308