Fedora 20 : glibc-2.18-9.fc20 (2013-17423)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70158

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Existing statically linked applications must be rebuilt to fix CVE-2013-4788.

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 glibc package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70158

File Name: fedora_2013-17423.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 9/27/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4332, CVE-2013-4788

BID: 61183, 62324

FEDORA: 2013-17423

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