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Fedora 16 : colord-0.1.15-1.fc16 (2011-16453)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57004

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- New upstream version

 - This release fixes an important security bug:
 CVE-2011-4349.

 - Do not crash the daemon if adding the device to the db failed

 - Fix a memory leak when getting properties from a device

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 colord package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757171

http://www.nessus.org/u?09ef5193

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57004

File Name: fedora_2011-16453.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/5/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4349

FEDORA: 2011-16453