Fedora 20 : bugzilla-4.2.9-1.fc20 (2014-5433)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73778

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Previous versions of bugzilla had the following security issues :

- The login form had no CSRF protection, meaning that an attacker could force the victim to log in using the attacker's credentials.

- Dangerous control characters can be inserted into Bugzilla, notably into bug comments, which can then be used to execute local commands.

The first issue has the CVE number CVE-2014-1517. Please see http://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.11/ for all the gory details.

Both issues were fixed in 4.2.8 but it introduced a regression in bug commenting that was fixed in 4.2.9.

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 bugzilla package.

See Also

https://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.11/

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6e314a9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73778

File Name: fedora_2014-5433.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bugzilla, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1517

BID: 66984

FEDORA: 2014-5433