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Fedora 16 : cvs-1.11.23-22.fc16 (2012-1383)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 57965

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix CVE-2012-0804 (Client heap-based buffer overflow on bad proxy response)

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 cvs package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784141

http://www.nessus.org/u?bc201f2c

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 57965

File Name: fedora_2012-1383.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cvs, 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: 2/7/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0804

BID: 51943

FEDORA: 2012-1383