Fedora 9 : initscripts-8.76.3-1 (2008-7667)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34279

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes an issue (CVE-2008-3524) where a malicious user could cause system files to be removed on startup. It also fixes a bug when running on pre- Fedora-9 kernels, and cleans up some extraneous error messages.

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 initscripts package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458652

http://www.nessus.org/u?e90cbd3c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34279

File Name: fedora_2008-7667.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:initscripts, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3524

CWE: 59

FEDORA: 2008-7667