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Fedora 16 : plib-1.8.5-5.fc16 (2012-0100)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57544

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix a buffer-overflow in ulSetError() (CVE-2011-4620)

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 plib package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769722

http://www.nessus.org/u?b82a4492

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57544

File Name: fedora_2012-0100.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/16/2012

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: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4620

BID: 51152

FEDORA: 2012-0100