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Fedora 13 : glibc-2.12.1-3 (2010-16594)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50312

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix strstr and memmem algorithm (BZ#12092, #641124)

 - Fix handling of tail bytes of buffer in SSE2/SSSE3 x86-64 version strncmp (BZ#12077)

 - Never expand $ORIGIN in privileged programs (#643306, CVE-2010-3847)

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 glibc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643306

http://www.nessus.org/u?343d6f52

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50312

File Name: fedora_2010-16594.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/24/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2010

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (glibc "$ORIGIN" Expansion Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3847

BID: 44154

FEDORA: 2010-16594