Fedora 19 : xinetd-2.3.15-8.fc19 (2013-18243)

high Nessus Plugin ID 70406

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2013-4342 xinetd: ignores user and group directives for tcpmux services

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 xinetd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006100

http://www.nessus.org/u?ddae747f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 70406

File Name: fedora_2013-18243.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/13/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xinetd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4342

BID: 62871

FEDORA: 2013-18243