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Fedora 17 : qemu-1.0.1-1.fc17 (2012-11302)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61471

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix systemtap tapsets (bz 831763)

 - Fix VNC audio tunnelling (bz 840653)

 - CVE-2012-2652: Possible symlink attacks with -snapshot (bz 825697, bz 824919)

 - Don't renable ksm on update (bz 815156)

 - Bump usbredir dep (bz 812097)

 - Fix RPM install error on non-virt machines (bz 660629)

 - Obsolete openbios to fix upgrade dependency issues (bz 694802)

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 qemu package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824919

http://www.nessus.org/u?d2f428b2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61471

File Name: fedora_2012-11302.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2652

BID: 53725

FEDORA: 2012-11302