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Fedora 15 : logwatch-7.3.6-66.20110203svn25.fc15 (2011-2396)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 52624

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2011-1018: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names

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 logwatch package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680237

http://www.nessus.org/u?f5eada1c

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 52624

File Name: fedora_2011-2396.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:logwatch

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: 3/1/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1018

BID: 46554

FEDORA: 2011-2396