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Fedora 7 : inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7 (2007-3074)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28160

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in inotify-tools, which can potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise an application using the library.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code with privileges of the application using the affected library.

NOTE: The programs shipped with inotify-tools are reportedly not affected.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.11.

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 inotify-tools, inotify-tools-debuginfo and / or inotify-tools-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299771

http://www.nessus.org/u?3e4b139d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28160

File Name: fedora_2007-3074.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:inotify-tools, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:inotify-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:inotify-tools-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5037

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2007-3074