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Fedora 13 : gdm-2.30.2-2.fc13 (2011-4351)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53437

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses a local root exploit for GDM.

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 gdm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691496

http://www.nessus.org/u?fa75f0fb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53437

File Name: fedora_2011-4351.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/15/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0727

BID: 47063

FEDORA: 2011-4351