Fedora 14 : systemtap-1.5-8.fc14 (2011-9739)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55744

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2011-2502 and CVE-2011-2503, which affected unprivileged mode (stapusr) installations.

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716476

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716489

http://www.nessus.org/u?b175cb19

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55744

File Name: fedora_2011-9739.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/1/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2502, CVE-2011-2503

BID: 48886

FEDORA: 2011-9739