Fedora 20 : syncevolution-1.4.1-1.fc20 (2014-5186)

low Nessus Plugin ID 73696

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.4.1 stable release

CVE-2014-1639 syncevolution: insecure temporary file usage in installcheck-local.sh

It was found [1] that the installcheck-local.sh script of the syncevolution package creates temporary files in an insecure way. A local attacker could use these flaws to perform a symbolic link attack on the temporary files used by installcheck-local.sh.

NOTE: The vulnerable installcheck-local.sh script is not shipped in the syncevolution RPM package, but is included in the source and may be called at compile time. This flaw is therefore only a concern for those rebuilding the SRPM package. Regular users of the syncevolution package are not affected.

[1] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/138

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 syncevolution package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 73696

File Name: fedora_2014-5186.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/25/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:syncevolution, 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: 4/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1639

BID: 65098

FEDORA: 2014-5186

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