Fedora 17 : libsocialweb-0.25.21-1.fc17 (2012-17749)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63008

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2012-4511: libsocialweb untrusted connection to flickr

The libsocialweb library is prone to a security vulnerability that allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.

Remote attackers can exploit this issue to gain access to sensitive information or modify the integrity of user accounts. Other attacks are also possible.

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 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863206

http://www.nessus.org/u?f50f0841

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63008

File Name: fedora_2012-17749.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/23/2012

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

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libsocialweb, 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: 11/8/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4511

BID: 56167

FEDORA: 2012-17749