Fedora 14 : apr-1.4.5-1.fc14 (2011-6918)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54957

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Move to 1.4.x branch.

Various bug fixes since 1.4.2.

Security: CVE-2011-0419 Reimplement apr_fnmatch() from scratch using a non-recursive algorithm; now has improved compliance with the fnmatch() spec.

Note: 1.4.3 was never officially released.

Fix CVE-2011-1928 introduced in 1.4.4.

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 apr package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703390

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706203

http://www.nessus.org/u?baa855b9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54957

File Name: fedora_2011-6918.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:apr, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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: 5/13/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0419, CVE-2011-1928

BID: 47820, 47929

FEDORA: 2011-6918