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Fedora 20 : libtar-1.2.11-27.fc20 (2013-18877)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70816

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

fix CVE-2013-4397: buffer overflows by expanding a specially crafted archive

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 libtar package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014492

http://www.nessus.org/u?b169b0a4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70816

File Name: fedora_2013-18877.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2013

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4397

BID: 62922

FEDORA: 2013-18877