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Fedora 20 : mod_fcgid-2.3.9-1.fc20 (2013-18579)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70431

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Current upstream maintenance release, including a security fix for a possible heap buffer overwrite issue (CVE-2013-4365).

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 mod_fcgid package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017039

http://www.nessus.org/u?06a6d0af

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70431

File Name: fedora_2013-18579.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/15/2013

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4365

BID: 62939

FEDORA: 2013-18579