Fedora 15 : glibc-2.14.1-6 (2012-2144)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58278

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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

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?ca822fec

http://www.nessus.org/u?8f12fed9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58278

File Name: fedora_2012-2144.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/8/2012

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0864

BID: 52201

FEDORA: 2012-2144