Fedora 16 : wicd-1.7.0-10.fc16 (2012-1059)

low Nessus Plugin ID 57986

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2012-0813

A sensitive information disclosure flaw was found in the way wicd, wireless and wired network connection manager, performed management of sensitive information, to be stored in log files. Fields like 'password', 'identity', 'private_key', 'private_key_passwd' etc., were not excluded from being logged into /var/log/wicd log file, which could allow local attacker, with the privileges of the 'adm' group to view content of these entities in plain text, leading to information disclosure. This update fixes the problem.

A reboot is not technically necessary, but if you do not reboot your system after installing this update, you should at least restart the wicd service.

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 wicd package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 57986

File Name: fedora_2012-1059.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 2/17/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wicd, 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: 1/31/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0813

BID: 51703

FEDORA: 2012-1059

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