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Fedora 15 : hostapd-0.7.3-2.1.fc15 (2012-8611)

low Nessus Plugin ID 59421

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Tighten-up default permissions for hostapd.conf (CVE-2012-2389)

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 hostapd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826109

http://www.nessus.org/u?64ad3ea2

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 59421

File Name: fedora_2012-8611.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/8/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hostapd

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2389

FEDORA: 2012-8611