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Fedora 17 : cifs-utils-5.4-1.fc17 (2012-6257)

low Nessus Plugin ID 58958

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This updates the cifs-utils package to version 5.4, which contains a number of bugfixes and enhancements. Highlights include :

 - mount.cifs now supports the -s option by passing 'sloppy' to the kernel in the options string

 - cifs.upcall now properly respects the domain_realm section in krb5.conf

 - unprivileged users can no longer mount onto dirs into which they can't chdir (fixes CVE-2012-1586)

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 cifs-utils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807252

http://www.nessus.org/u?180d8650

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 58958

File Name: fedora_2012-6257.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

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:cifs-utils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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: 4/20/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1586

BID: 52742, 53246

FEDORA: 2012-6257