Fedora 13 : rpm-4.8.1-2.fc13 (2010-9829)

high Nessus Plugin ID 47676

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Jun 30 2010 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
- 4.8.1-2

- plug a tiny race on sbit/capability removal

- Mon Jun 14 2010 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> - 4.8.1-1

- update to 4.8.1 (http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.8.1)

- drop no longer needed patches

- fix source url pointing to testing directory

- fixes CVE-2010-2059 / #598934

- fixes #532992, #578299, #587755, #590588, #593553, #597835, #598988

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 rpm package.

See Also

http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.8.1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598775

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601955

http://www.nessus.org/u?44a54986

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47676

File Name: fedora_2010-9829.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rpm

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: 6/14/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2059, CVE-2010-2198

BID: 40512

FEDORA: 2010-9829