Fedora 17 : automake17-1.7.9-16.fc17 (2012-14770)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62420

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixed security problem CVE-2012-3386.

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 automake17 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838661

http://www.nessus.org/u?b225994d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62420

File Name: fedora_2012-14770.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/4/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:automake17, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3386

FEDORA: 2012-14770