Fedora 21 : thermostat-1.0.6-1.fc21 (2014-17384)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80422

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to latest maintenance release. It was discovered that, in certain configurations, the Thermostat agent disclosed JMX management URLs of all local Java virtual machines to any local user. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-8120)

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 thermostat package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168977

http://www.nessus.org/u?a6d21182

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80422

File Name: fedora_2014-17384.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thermostat, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8120

BID: 71709

FEDORA: 2014-17384