Fedora 14 : tor-0.2.1.30-1400.fc14 (2011-7972)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54981

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Mar 17 2011 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.30-1400

- updated to 0.2.1.30

- Mon Jan 17 2011 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.29-1400

- updated to 0.2.1.29 (SECURITY)

- CVE-2011-0427: heap overflow bug, potential remote code execution

- Tue Dec 21 2010 Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> - 0.2.1.28-1400

- updated to 0.2.1.28 (SECURITY: fixes a remotely exploitable heap overflow bug)

- Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.27-1400

- updated to 0.2.1.27

- work around broken chkconfig by adding dummy Default-Start: in -lsb (#647512)

- Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.26-1401

- fixed 'limit' statement in upstart script

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 tor package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705194

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee118a89

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54981

File Name: fedora_2011-7972.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/7/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tor, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1924

BID: 46618

FEDORA: 2011-7972