Fedora 13 : systemtap-1.3-3.fc13 (2010-17873)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50657

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This refresh corrects two important security bugs in the /usr/bin/staprun program of the systemtap-runtime package.

CVE-2010-4171 Ability to remove unused modules by unprivileged user CVE-2010-4170 Insecure loading of modules

We would like to thank Tavis Ormandy for reporting this issue.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50657

File Name: fedora_2010-17873.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/19/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:systemtap, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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: 11/18/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2010

Exploitable With

Metasploit (SystemTap MODPROBE_OPTIONS Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4170, CVE-2010-4171

FEDORA: 2010-17873

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