Fedora 12 : glibc-2.11.2-3 (2010-16641)
High Nessus Plugin ID 50421
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
- Correct x86 CPU family and model check (BZ#11640, #596554)
- Don't crash on unresolved weak symbol reference
- sunrpc: Fix spurious fall-through
- Never expand $ORIGIN in privileged programs (#643306, CVE-2010-3847)
- Require suid bit on audit objects in privileged programs (CVE-2010-3856)
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.