Fedora 19 : glibc-2.17-13.fc19 (2013-15053)
high Nessus Plugin ID 69436
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Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
glibc security update :CVE-2012-4412 glibc: strcoll() integer overflow leading to buffer overflow CVE-2012-4424 glibc: alloca() stack overflow in the strcoll() interface CVE-2013-1914 glibc: Stack (frame) overflow in getaddrinfo() when processing entry mapping to long list of address structures CVE-2013-2207 glibc (pt_chown): Improper pseudotty ownership and permissions changes when granting access to the slave pseudoterminal CVE-2013-4237 glibc: Buffer overwrite when using readdir_r on file systems returning file names longer than NAME_MAX characters
Fix for CVE-2013-2207 may break chroots if their devpts was not mounted correctly. Fix is to mount the devpts correctly with gid=5.
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 glibc package.See Also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855385
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947882
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976408
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 69436
File Name: fedora_2013-15053.nasl
Version: 1.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 8/22/2013
Updated: 1/11/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:ND
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19
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: 8/20/2013
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2012-4412, CVE-2013-1914, CVE-2013-2207, CVE-2013-4237
FEDORA: 2013-15053