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Fedora 18 : mc-4.8.6-2.fc18 (2012-19335)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63143

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

sanitize of MC_EXT_SELECTED variable when viewing multiple files, CVE-2012-4463 (#862814) https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2913

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 mc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862813

http://www.nessus.org/u?6b19117b

https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/2913

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63143

File Name: fedora_2012-19335.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mc, 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: 11/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4463

BID: 55777

FEDORA: 2012-19335