PT-2014-3141 · Fedora · Fedup

Published 2014-12-02 · Updated 2014-12-02 · CVE-2013-6494

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions fedup version 0.9.0 in Fedora versions 19, 20, and 21

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, specifically the prevention of system updates, by exploiting the use of a temporary directory with a static name for the download cache.

Recommendations For fedup version 0.9.0 in Fedora versions 19, 20, and 21, consider updating to a newer version that does not use a static temporary directory name for its download cache to prevent denial of service attacks.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-17

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-6494

Affected Products

Fedup

References · 7

• https://github.com/wgwoods/fedup/issues/44 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066679 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/141698.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/142933.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6494 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/142698.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/70874 · Note