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Fedora 20 : xinetd-2.3.15-8.fc20 (2013-18241)

high Nessus Plugin ID 70405

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2013-4342 xinetd: ignores user and group directives for tcpmux services

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 xinetd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006100

http://www.nessus.org/u?ffa34768

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 70405

File Name: fedora_2013-18241.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/13/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4342

BID: 62871

FEDORA: 2013-18241