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 Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2015-1783)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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
218598	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-1783	Nessus	Misc.	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

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CVE-2015-1783

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Tenable Plugins

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