Fedora 17 : cifs-utils-5.5-2.fc17 (2012-10421)

high Nessus Plugin ID 60073

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update enables some extra security features in the executables (specifically, PIE and RELRO support).

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 cifs-utils package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?86901768

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 60073

File Name: fedora_2012-10421.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-10421