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Fedora 18 : system-config-users-1.3.1-1.fc18 (2012-17513)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63101

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update uses pkexec instead of consolehelper/usermode.

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 system-config-users package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?90881a55

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63101

File Name: fedora_2012-17513.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/30/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:system-config-users, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-17513