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Fedora 18 : glibc-2.16-30.fc18 (2013-4100)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65745

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix multibyte character processing crash in regexp (CVE-2013-0242).
Fix ownership of /usr/lib[64]/audit (#894307). Rename release engineering directory to `releng' (#903754).

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Solution

Update the affected glibc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905874

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd0e1019

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65745

File Name: fedora_2013-4100.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, 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: 3/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0242

BID: 57638

FEDORA: 2013-4100