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Fedora 20 : ack-2.12-1.fc20 (2013-23197)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71550

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This version of ack prevents the --pager, --regex and --output options from being used from project-level ackrc files. It is possible to execute malicious code with these options, and we want to prevent the security risk of acking through a potentially malicious codebase, such as one downloaded from an Internet site or checked out from a code repository.

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 ack package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040228

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc4e5fc4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71550

File Name: fedora_2013-23197.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/20/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ack, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7069

BID: 64196

FEDORA: 2013-23197