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Fedora 14 : patch-2.6.1-8.fc14 (2011-1272)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52570

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Applied fix so that malicious patches cannot create files above the current directory (CVE-2010-4651).

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 patch package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667529

http://www.nessus.org/u?d42a6848

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52570

File Name: fedora_2011-1272.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/8/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4651

FEDORA: 2011-1272