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Fedora 14 : git-1.7.3.4-1.fc14 (2010-18981)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51373

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.7.3.4 release which fixes various issues, notably :

 - cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the web interface of Git distributed revision control system. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML or scripting code by providing a certain URL with specially crafted values of f and fp variables.
 (CVE-2010-3906)

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 git package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663609

http://www.nessus.org/u?fbe4ab00

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51373

File Name: fedora_2010-18981.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/26/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:git, 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: 12/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3906

BID: 45439

FEDORA: 2010-18981