Fedora 20 : mksh-50c-1.fc20 (2014-12242)

high Nessus Plugin ID 78252

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

R50c is a security fix release :

- Know more rare signals when generating sys_signame[] replacement

- OpenBSD sync (mostly RCSID only)

- Document HISTSIZE limit; found by luigi_345 on IRC

- Fix link to Debian .mkshrc

- Cease exporting $RANDOM (Debian #760857)

- Fix C99 compatibility

- Work around klibc bug causing a coredump (Debian #763842)

- Use issetugid(2) as additional check if we are FPRIVILEGED

- SECURITY: do not permit += from environment

- Fix more field splitting bugs reported by Stephane Chazelas and mikeserv; document current status wrt.
ambiguous ones as testcases too

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 mksh package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149626

http://www.nessus.org/u?cb321339

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 78252

File Name: fedora_2014-12242.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/11/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mksh, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2014

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2014-12242