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Fedora 27 : zsh (2018-8b1b2373b4)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 117508

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- fix two security issues in shebang line parsing (CVE-2018-0502 CVE-2018-13259)

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 zsh package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-8b1b2373b4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 117508

File Name: fedora_2018-8b1b2373b4.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:zsh, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0502, CVE-2018-13259