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Fedora 25 : cloud-init (2017-837115524e)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97926

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a systemd service ordering issue in cloud-init and backports a fix for a [security issue](https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1638312) in which instances run in EC2 write IAM instance profile credentials to disk.
To work around the security issue without updating cloud-init, wait at least six hours between creating a bundle or an EBS snapshot and registering that as a machine image.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected cloud-init package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-837115524e

https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1638312

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97926

File Name: fedora_2017-837115524e.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/24/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cloud-init, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2017

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