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Fedora 16 : dracut-018-60.git20120927.fc16 (2012-14959)

low Nessus Plugin ID 62526

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

dracut-018-60.git20120927

 - run dracut-shutdown.service before shutdown.target Resolves: rhbz#840120

 - do not create the initramfs world readable Resolves:
 rhbz#859448

 - mdraid: do the dracut shutdown, if a md raid is found

 - mdraid: handle nested md raids

 - mdraid: wait until devices are clean on shutdown Resolves: rhbz#732297 rhbz#840562

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 dracut package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859448

http://www.nessus.org/u?79e524d1

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 62526

File Name: fedora_2012-14959.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/15/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dracut

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4453

BID: 55713

FEDORA: 2012-14959