Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
Update to latest PCP sources, and resolve these bugzillas :
- Fix pmcd sigsegv in NUMA/CPU indom setup (BZ 858384)
- Fix sar2pcp uninitialised perl variable warning (BZ 859117)
- Fix pcp.py and pmcollectl with older python versions (BZ 852234)
- Added the python PMAPI bindings and an initial python client in pmcollectl. Separate, new package exists for python libs for those platforms that split out packages (rpm, deb).
- Added a pcp-testsuite package for those platforms that might want this (rpm, deb again, mainly)
- Re-introduced the pcp/qa subdirectory in pcp and deprecated the external pcpqa git tree.
- Fix potential buffer overflow in pmlogger host name handling.
- Reworked the configure --prefix handling to be more like the rest of the open source world.
- Ensure the __pmDecodeText ident parameter is always set Resolves Red Hat bugzilla bug #841306. new upstream release new upstream release
- Added the python PMAPI bindings and an initial python client in pmcollectl. Separate, new package exists for python libs for those platforms that split out packages (rpm, deb).
- Added a pcp-testsuite package for those platforms that might want this (rpm, deb again, mainly)
- Re-introduced the pcp/qa subdirectory in pcp and deprecated the external pcpqa git tree.
- Fix potential buffer overflow in pmlogger host name handling.
- Reworked the configure --prefix handling to be more like the rest of the open source world.
- Ensure the __pmDecodeText ident parameter is always set Resolves Red Hat bugzilla bug #841306. new upstream release
- Added the python PMAPI bindings and an initial python client in pmcollectl. Separate, new package exists for python libs for those platforms that split out packages (rpm, deb).
- Added a pcp-testsuite package for those platforms that might want this (rpm, deb again, mainly)
- Re-introduced the pcp/qa subdirectory in pcp and deprecated the external pcpqa git tree.
- Fix potential buffer overflow in pmlogger host name handling.
- Reworked the configure --prefix handling to be more like the rest of the open source world.
- Ensure the __pmDecodeText ident parameter is always set Resolves Red Hat bugzilla bug #841306.
- Added the python PMAPI bindings and an initial python client in pmcollectl. Separate, new package exists for python libs for those platforms that split out packages (rpm, deb).
- Added a pcp-testsuite package for those platforms that might want this (rpm, deb again, mainly)
- Re-introduced the pcp/qa subdirectory in pcp and deprecated the external pcpqa git tree.
- Fix potential buffer overflow in pmlogger host name handling.
- Reworked the configure --prefix handling to be more like the rest of the open source world.
- Ensure the __pmDecodeText ident parameter is always set Resolves Red Hat bugzilla bug #841306.
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 pcp package.
Plugin Details
File Name: fedora_2012-16984.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2012
Reference Information
BID: 56411