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Fedora 26 : cloud-init (2017-83671c0fa0)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101674

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes several issues with systemd service ordering and network configuration. It also backports a fix for a [security issue](https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1638312) in which instances run in EC2 write IAM instance profile credentials to disk.
To work around the security issue without updating cloud-init, wait at least six hours between creating a bundle or an EBS snapshot and registering that as a machine image.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected cloud-init package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-83671c0fa0

https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1638312

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101674

File Name: fedora_2017-83671c0fa0.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cloud-init, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2017

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