Fedora 13 : monotone-0.48.1-1.fc13 (2010-16902)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50507

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to monotone-0.48.1, which contains a fix for a DoS :

Running 'mtn ' or 'mtn ls ' doesn't cause an internal error anymore. In monotone 0.48 and earlier this behavior could be used to crash a server remotely (but only if it was configured to allow execution of remote commands). Therefore everyone running such a server should update as soon as possible.

There's also a fix for a non-critical issue :

Using mtn:// style URIs for netsync operations didn't work with 0.48 on systems which only have a 'monotone' entry in /etc/services.
Failing to find a corresponding entry for the schema in a given URI isn't considered fatal now, instead mtn falls back to its default port.

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 monotone package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647302

http://www.nessus.org/u?ce8027d7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50507

File Name: fedora_2010-16902.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4098

BID: 44383

FEDORA: 2010-16902