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Fedora 16 : ipmitool-1.8.11-8.fc16 (2011-17065)

low Nessus Plugin ID 57419

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes following security bug: CVE-2011-4339 - OpenIPMI:
IPMI event daemon creates PID file with world writeable permissions

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 ipmitool package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742837

http://www.nessus.org/u?4d0c9321

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 57419

File Name: fedora_2011-17065.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4339

BID: 51036

FEDORA: 2011-17065