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Fedora 18 : socat-1.7.2.2-1.fc18 (2013-9504)

low Nessus Plugin ID 67361

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix for CVE-2013-3571: Denial of service due to file descriptor leak

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 socat package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967345

http://www.nessus.org/u?6339507f

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 67361

File Name: fedora_2013-9504.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-3571

BID: 60170

FEDORA: 2013-9504