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Fedora 14 : foomatic-4.0.7-2.fc14 (2011-9575)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55874

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes improper sanitization of command line options.
(CVE-2011-2964)

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 foomatic package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727016

http://www.nessus.org/u?58da820f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55874

File Name: fedora_2011-9575.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/17/2011

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: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2964

FEDORA: 2011-9575