Fedora 18 : gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc18 (2013-13616)

high Nessus Plugin ID 69206

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Recreate tarball from proper sources; previous package was shipping an unknown code tarball.

- Add proper patching for CVE-2012-5617/CVE-2013-4161, the previous fix was creating a patch file and not patching the code.

- Use proper bus name in service file to fix service timeout.

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 gksu-polkit package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883162

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987561

http://www.nessus.org/u?7435433a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 69206

File Name: fedora_2013-13616.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/5/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5617, CVE-2013-4161

BID: 56918

FEDORA: 2013-13616