Fedora 17 : openstack-nova-2012.1-10.fc17 (2012-9550)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59699

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

bug fixes and performance improvements from stable essex

- fix an exception caused by the fix for CVE-2012-2654

- fix the encoding of the dns_domains table (requires a db sync)

- fix a crash due to a nova services startup race (#825051)

- Fix for protocol case handling CVE-2012-2654

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 openstack-nova package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825051

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829440

http://www.nessus.org/u?65d2c8ab

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59699

File Name: fedora_2012-9550.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openstack-nova, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2654

BID: 53875

FEDORA: 2012-9550