Fedora 15 : systemtap-1.4-9.fc15 (2011-7314)

low Nessus Plugin ID 54837

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Two divide-by-zero flaws were found in the way systemtap interpreted certain corrupted DWARF expressions. A privileged user able to execute arbitrary systemtap scripts could be tricked into triggering this flaw to crash the target machine. An unprivileged user (in the stapusr group) may be able to trigger this flaw to crash the target machine, only if unprivileged mode was enabled by the system administrator.

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 systemtap package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 54837

File Name: fedora_2011-7314.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 5/27/2011

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: Low

Base Score: 1.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1769, CVE-2011-1781

FEDORA: 2011-7314

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