Fedora 18 : glibc-2.16-8.fc18 (2012-11963)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62130

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in strto* (#847718)

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=847715

http://www.nessus.org/u?86facb39

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62130

File Name: fedora_2012-11963.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2012

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: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3480

FEDORA: 2012-11963