Fedora 16 : cifs-utils-5.0-2.fc16 (2011-10028)

low Nessus Plugin ID 55944

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update that fixes a problem with handling embedded newlines in share names or mountpoints.

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 cifs-utils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726691

http://www.nessus.org/u?36cb1e6a

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 55944

File Name: fedora_2011-10028.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2011

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cifs-utils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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: 8/1/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0547, CVE-2011-2724

BID: 38326

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2011-10028