The prefix variable in the get_or_define_ns function in Lasso before commit 6d854cef4211cdcdbc7446c978f23ab859847cdd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - lasso: use of uninitialized value leading to a crash (CVE-2015-1783)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Security fix for CVE-2015-1783

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198953	RHEL 6 : lasso (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
82947	Fedora 22 : lasso-2.4.1-3.fc22 (2015-4821)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
82614	Fedora 20 : lasso-2.4.1-1.fc20 (2015-4848)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
82613	Fedora 21 : lasso-2.4.1-1.fc21 (2015-4807)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2015-1783

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Tenable Plugins

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