Fedora 18 : rpmdevtools-8.3-1.fc18 (2012-13208)

low Nessus Plugin ID 62145

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to upstream version 8.3, fixing among other issues a symlink attack possibility in annotate-output (CVE-2012-3500).

http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/rpmdevtools.git/tree/NEWS?id=HEAD

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 rpmdevtools package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 62145

File Name: fedora_2012-13208.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

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: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3500

FEDORA: 2012-13208

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