Fedora 12 : glibc-2.11.2-3 (2010-16641)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50421

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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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643306

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645672

http://www.nessus.org/u?db83ce86

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50421

File Name: fedora_2010-16641.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

Temporal Vector: E:F/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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: 10/27/2010

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (glibc LD_AUDIT Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3847, CVE-2010-3856

BID: 44154, 44347

FEDORA: 2010-16641