Fedora 18 : nagios-3.5.0-5.fc18 (2013-10950)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67293

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Build package with PIE flags (#965529); Insecure temporary file usage in nagios.upgrade_to_v3.sh (#958292)

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 nagios package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958292

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965529

http://www.nessus.org/u?a82bdd6f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67293

File Name: fedora_2013-10950.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nagios, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Nagios3 history.cgi Host Command Execution)

Reference Information

BID: 56879

FEDORA: 2013-10950