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Fedora 16 : glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.6 (2012-2162)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58124

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Avoid 'nargs' integer overflow which can be used to bypass FORTIFY_SOURCE protections.

Revert changes for 552960, they're still causing problems.

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 glibc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794797

http://www.nessus.org/u?15ad6906

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58124

File Name: fedora_2012-2162.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/27/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0864

FEDORA: 2012-2162