Fedora 7 : sysstat-7.0.4-3.fc7 (2007-1697)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27727

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Aug 20 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova at redhat.com>
- 7.0.4-3

- fix CVE-2007-3852 - sysstat insecure temporary file usage

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 sysstat and / or sysstat-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c78146f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27727

File Name: fedora_2007-1697.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sysstat, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sysstat-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3852

CWE: 264

FEDORA: 2007-1697