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Fedora 17 : pl-6.0.2-4.fc17 (2013-0211)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63528

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix two buffer overflows when expanding file name glob (CVE-2012-6090) and when canonizing path (CVE-2012-6089).

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 pl package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891577

http://www.nessus.org/u?40f748bc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63528

File Name: fedora_2013-0211.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6089, CVE-2012-6090

FEDORA: 2013-0211