Fedora 18 : firebird-2.5.2.26539.0-2.fc18 (2013-3707)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65636

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

fix CVE-2013-2492.

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 firebird package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919549

http://www.nessus.org/u?70fd2115

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65636

File Name: fedora_2013-3707.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/21/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 3/12/2013

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Firebird Relational Database CNCT Group Number Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2492

BID: 58393

FEDORA: 2013-3707