Fedora 17 : elinks-0.12-0.29.pre5.fc17 (2013-0265)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63516

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- do not delegate GSSAPI credentials (CVE-2012-4545)

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 elinks package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864566

http://www.nessus.org/u?0d62bddd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63516

File Name: fedora_2013-0265.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4545

BID: 57065

FEDORA: 2013-0265