Fedora 16 : foomatic-4.0.8-4.fc16 (2011-11118)

low Nessus Plugin ID 56013

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This package fixes CVE-2011-2924 by using mktemp when creating a debug log file in debug mode.

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=726426

http://www.nessus.org/u?2f83d561

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 56013

File Name: fedora_2011-11118.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/31/2011

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: 1.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:foomatic, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2923, CVE-2011-2924

FEDORA: 2011-11118