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Fedora 18 : libuser-0.58-3.fc18 (2013-4571)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66006

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a TOCTOU race condition when copying and removing directory trees.

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 libuser package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884685

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885724

http://www.nessus.org/u?1bdb2418

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66006

File Name: fedora_2013-4571.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5630, CVE-2012-5644

FEDORA: 2013-4571