Fedora 17 : wicd-1.7.2.1-1.fc17 (2012-5858)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58834

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2012-2095. The wicd daemon suffered from a local privilege escalation flaw due to incomplete input sanitization. A local attacker sould use this to inject arbitrary code through the D-Bus interface.

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 wicd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811762

http://www.nessus.org/u?c0633779

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58834

File Name: fedora_2012-5858.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/24/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wicd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2095

FEDORA: 2012-5858