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Fedora 18 : gnome-system-log-3.6.1-2.fc18 (2012-18579)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63172

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update changes gnome-system-log to use a stricter polkit policy when running with elevated privileges. Previously, it would only ask for the user's own password; now it requires anadministrator password.

This problem has been reported as CVE-2012-5535

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 gnome-system-log package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878115

http://www.nessus.org/u?eb19b6dd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63172

File Name: fedora_2012-18579.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-system-log

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5535

FEDORA: 2012-18579