Fedora 16 : perl-PAR-1.002-5.fc16 / perl-PAR-Packer-1.010-3.fc16 (2011-16856)

low Nessus Plugin ID 57367

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2011-4114 (insecure temporary directory handling). See bug #753955 for tests.

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 perl-PAR and / or perl-PAR-Packer packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753955

http://www.nessus.org/u?700f431f

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee4b1df9

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 57367

File Name: fedora_2011-16856.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/22/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-par, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-par-packer, 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: 12/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4114

BID: 50540

FEDORA: 2011-16856