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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66635
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-13642 (NetworkManager)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to NetworkManager
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-13642.

Update Information:

This update corrects two security issues, as well as fixes for various mobile
broadband devices and Fedora system network configuration handling.
ChangeLog:

* Wed Dec 23 2009 Dan Williams - 0.7.2-2.git20091223
- nm: allow more connect time for 'hso' mobile broadband devices (rh #514827)
- nm: fix reconnections on some Option 'hso' devices
- nm: add support for more ZTE mobile broadband devices
- ifcfg-rh: treat MODE=AUTO as infrastructure mode
- ifcfg-rh: warn when device will be managed due to missing HWADDR (rh #545003)
- ifcfg-rh: add support for reading and writing routes files (rh #507307)
- applet: fix potential leakage of secrets onto the system bus (rh #546115) (CVE-2009-4145)
- applet: fix possible connections to spoofed WPA Enterprise networks (rh #546793) (CVE-2009-4144)
- applet: add Disable Notifications option
- applet: fix blank notification with certain characters

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #546117 - CVE-2009-4145 NetworkManager: information disclosure by nm-connection-editor
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546117
[ 2 ] Bug #546795 - CVE-2009-4144 NetworkManager: WPA enterprise network not verified when certificate is removed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546795

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update NetworkManager' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-13642

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.8

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4145
37580
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37580
37819
http://secunia.com/advisories/37819
38420
http://secunia.com/advisories/38420
RHSA-2010:0108
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0108.html
SUSE-SR:2010:002
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00000.html
[oss-security] 20091216 NetworkManager CVE assignment
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/16/3
http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_APPLET_0_7&id=56d87fcb86acb5359558e0a2ee702cfc0c3391f2
http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_APPLET_0_7&id=8627880e07c8345f69ed639325280c7f62a8f894
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546117
networkmanager-nmconnectioneditor-info-disc(54898)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54898
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10539
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10539
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4144
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560067
http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_APPLET_0_7&id=4020594dfbf566f1852f0acb36ad631a9e73a82b
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546795
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11315
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11315
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