Fedora 16 : libsocialweb-0.25.20-1.fc16 / rest-0.7.12-1.fc16 (2011-15833)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56940

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

CVE-2011-4129

A security flaw was found in the way the libsocialweb, a social network data aggregator, performed its initialization when this service start was initiated by the dbus daemon. Due to a deficiency in a way the libsocialweb service was initialized, an untrusted (non-SSL) network connection has been opened to remote Twitter service servers without explicit approval of the user, running the libsocialweb service on the local host. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct various MITM attacks and potentially alter integrity of the user account in question.

- libsocialweb: The views will try and fetch content from the web service even if they aren't configured.

- rest: enforce that the SSL certificate is valid

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 libsocialweb and / or rest packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56940

File Name: fedora_2011-15833.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/26/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libsocialweb, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rest, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4129

FEDORA: 2011-15833

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