Fedora 17 : mod_security-2.7.1-3.fc17 / mod_security_crs-2.2.6-3.fc17 (2012-18315)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63127

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

- Update to 2.7.1

- Update Core rules set to 2.2.6

- Fix build against libxml2 >= 2.9 (upstreamed)

- Add some missing directives RHBZ #569360

- Fix multipart/invalid part ruleset bypass issue (CVE-2012-4528) (RHBZ #867424, #867773, #867774)

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 mod_security and / or mod_security_crs packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867424

http://www.nessus.org/u?8afef71f

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc638616

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63127

File Name: fedora_2012-18315.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4528

BID: 56096

FEDORA: 2012-18315