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Fedora 18 : plib-1.8.5-8.fc18 (2012-17517)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62879

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix a bufferoverflow in _ssgParser::error() (CVE-2012-4552)

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 plib package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871187

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fd9096a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62879

File Name: fedora_2012-17517.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2012

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4552

BID: 55839

FEDORA: 2012-17517