Fedora 17 : openstack-swift-1.4.8-3.fc17 (2012-15642)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62601

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Do not use pickle for serialization in memcache (CVE-2012-4406)

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-swift package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854761

http://www.nessus.org/u?ba39749b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62601

File Name: fedora_2012-15642.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/18/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openstack-swift, 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: 10/8/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4406

BID: 55420

FEDORA: 2012-15642