Fedora 17 : glibc-2.15-59.fc17 (2013-4174)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66724

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix multibyte character processing crash in regexp (#922889, #905874, CVE-2013-0242)

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=905874

http://www.nessus.org/u?e82771d7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66724

File Name: fedora_2013-4174.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/2/2013

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: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0242

BID: 57638

FEDORA: 2013-4174