Fedora 18 : tcl-snack-2.2.10-17.fc18 (2013-0083)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63502

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Apply fix for CVE-2012-6303, where a crafted WAV file could cause a buffer overflow. Thanks to Michael Karcher for the patch.

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 tcl-snack package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885893

http://www.nessus.org/u?4f7752dd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63502

File Name: fedora_2013-0083.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2013

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: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcl-snack, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/2/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6303

FEDORA: 2013-0083