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Fedora 18 : libproxy-0.4.11-1.fc18 (2012-19879)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63486

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2012-5580 libproxy: format string flaw in bin/proxy

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 libproxy package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883100

http://www.nessus.org/u?87e16b19

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63486

File Name: fedora_2012-19879.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2013

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libproxy, 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: 12/6/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5580

BID: 56712

FEDORA: 2012-19879