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Fedora 18 : crypto-utils-2.4.1-39.fc18 (2013-3253)

low Nessus Plugin ID 65181

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Addresses CVE-2012-3504 - insecure temporary file usage in genkey

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 crypto-utils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862430

http://www.nessus.org/u?7bae45b4

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 65181

File Name: fedora_2013-3253.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2013

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: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:crypto-utils

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3504

BID: 55756

FEDORA: 2013-3253