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Fedora 23 : arts-1.5.10-30.fc23 (2015-6d473c95ee)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89269

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2015-7543 in arts (the legacy aRts sound server):
A temporary directory was being created insecurely using mktemp and mkdir, allowing an attacker to hijack the temporary directory and thus the inter- process communication (IPC). This update fixes the temporary directory creation to use the safe mkdtemp function instead.

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 arts package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1280543

http://www.nessus.org/u?b619c5c8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89269

File Name: fedora_2015-6d473c95ee.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

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: 4.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:arts

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/29/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7543