Fedora 17 : openvswitch-1.4.2-5.fc17 (2012-17477)

low Nessus Plugin ID 62894

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Don't create world-writable pki/*/incoming directory Don't add iptables accept rule for -p GRE as GRE tunneling is unsupported

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 openvswitch package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845351

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870034

http://www.nessus.org/u?37236969

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 62894

File Name: fedora_2012-17477.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openvswitch, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3449

BID: 54789

FEDORA: 2012-17477