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Fedora 17 : gypsy-0.9-1.fc17 (2013-8705)

low Nessus Plugin ID 66654

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- New upstream 0.9 release

 - add patch to fix FTBSF due to deprecated g_type_init

 - Fix CVE-2011-0523 - read arbitrary files as the root user on behalf of a regular user

 - Fix CVE-2011-0524 - buffer overflow in nmea device input handling (code no longer in existence)

 - aarch64 support

 - Fix segfault

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 gypsy package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674129

http://www.nessus.org/u?ea4093ca

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 66654

File Name: fedora_2013-8705.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gypsy, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0523, CVE-2011-0524

FEDORA: 2013-8705