Fedora 18 : lightdm-1.4.3-1.fc18 (2013-16381)

low Nessus Plugin ID 70149

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a stable update in the 1.4 series adding a few important fixes backported from later versions.

Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.2 include :

- Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.

- Stop using g_file_set_replace - it can leave intermediate files around

See also:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-September/000438.ht ml http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-September/000446.ht ml

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 lightdm package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 70149

File Name: fedora_2013-16381.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 9/27/2013

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lightdm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2013

Reference Information

BID: 62329

FEDORA: 2013-16381

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