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Fedora 18 : v8-3.13.7.5-1.fc18 (2012-20117)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63490

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 3.13.7.5. Fixes CVE-2012-5120 CVE-2012-5128 and gets d8 working properly again.

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 v8 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874840

http://www.nessus.org/u?71317831

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63490

File Name: fedora_2012-20117.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: 5.9

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:v8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5120, CVE-2012-5128

BID: 56413

FEDORA: 2012-20117