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Fedora 14 : acpid-2.0.9-1.fc14 (2011-6460)

low Nessus Plugin ID 53902

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue May 3 2011 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 2.0.9-1

 - fixes #701340 - CVE-2011-1159 acpid: blocked writes can lead to acpid daemon hang

 - update to latest upstream 2.0.9

 - Wed Dec 8 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 2.0.7-1

 - fixes #660459 - Should be able to set options with /etc/sysconfig/acpid

 - update to latest upstream

 - Wed Nov 3 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 2.0.5-4

 - fixes #648221 - SELinux is preventing /sbin/iwconfig access to a leaked /dev/input/event0 file descriptor

 - Wed Sep 29 2010 jkeating - 2.0.5-3.1

 - Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757

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 acpid package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698

http://www.nessus.org/u?f5b83489

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 53902

File Name: fedora_2011-6460.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 5/4/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1159

BID: 45915

FEDORA: 2011-6460