Fedora 18 : plexus-archiver-2.3-1.fc18 (2013-5548)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66378

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Rebase to upstream version 2.3 and add patch to fix CVE-2012-2098.

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 plexus-archiver package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951522

http://www.nessus.org/u?484a0607

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66378

File Name: fedora_2013-5548.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:plexus-archiver, 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: 4/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2098

BID: 53676

FEDORA: 2013-5548