Fedora 16 : ReviewBoard-1.6.3-1.fc16 (2011-15935)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56965

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- New upstream security release 1.6.3

- Security Fixes :

- A script injection vulnerability was discovered in the commenting system. This affected the diff viewer and screenshot pages, and allowed a commenter to break the page and execute JavaScript

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 ReviewBoard package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754130

http://www.nessus.org/u?d42bee9e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56965

File Name: fedora_2011-15935.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/29/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:reviewboard, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4312

BID: 50681

FEDORA: 2011-15935