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Fedora 13 : tmux-1.4-3.fc13 (2011-5156)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53480

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

tmux didn't drop group privileges correctly in all cases.

This is fixed by using an updated patch originating from the debian tmux package.

Fixes RHBZ #694563, CVE-2011-1496

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 tmux package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694563

http://www.nessus.org/u?78c6a287

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53480

File Name: fedora_2011-5156.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/19/2011

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tmux, 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: 4/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1496

BID: 47283

FEDORA: 2011-5156