Fedora 17 : rpmdevtools-8.3-1.fc17 (2012-13234)

low Nessus Plugin ID 62051

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to upstream version 8.3, fixing among other issues a symlink attack possibility in annotate-output (CVE-2012-3500).

http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/rpmdevtools.git/tree/NEWS?id=HEAD

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 rpmdevtools package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4b0a1905

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789330

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828455

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841043

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853452

http://www.nessus.org/u?113553ad

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 62051

File Name: fedora_2012-13234.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.2

Temporal Score: 0.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3500

BID: 55358

FEDORA: 2012-13234