Fedora 8 : audit-1.6.8-4.fc8 (2008-3012)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31825

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes the init script headers to not provide LSB info.
This was causing audit to start too late. It also fixes a problem where saddr fields were not being decoded correctly on avc events in ausearch. This also fixes a buffer overflow in audit_log_user_command that is caught by FORTIFY_SOURCE, resulting in an application crash.
sudo is the only application known to use this vulnerable function.

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 audit package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440275

http://www.nessus.org/u?899a4811

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31825

File Name: fedora_2008-3012.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.1

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:audit, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1628

BID: 28524

CWE: 119, 264

FEDORA: 2008-3012