Fedora 17 : vte-0.28.2-6.fc17 (2012-9575)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59842

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix for python bindings issues, and fix for CVE-2012-2738

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 vte package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832356

http://www.nessus.org/u?763bd559

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59842

File Name: fedora_2012-9575.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/5/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:vte, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2738

FEDORA: 2012-9575