Fedora 23 : pax-utils-1.1.4-1.fc23 (2015-73cdd43bc0)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89285

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Changes since 1.0.5: * security: whitelist the getcwd syscall * security: fix build on systems w/out si_syscall * security: whitelist the futex syscall * security: whitelist dup syscalls * security: do not warn when seccomp is disabled in the kernel * security: whitelist fakeroot syscalls * security: add a debug handler for seccomp * security: clean up syscall ifdefs * security: use seccomp to lock ourselves down * security: lock down privs a bit via prctl * security:
leverage namespaces to restrict the runtime a bit * lddtree.sh: fix interp handling when doing a full listing * lddtree.py: fix glob handling w/ld.so.conf * scanelf: fix memory leak with the -s option

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 pax-utils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286232

http://www.nessus.org/u?5dec74c9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89285

File Name: fedora_2015-73cdd43bc0.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pax-utils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/9/2015

Reference Information