A password generation weakness exists in xquest through 2016-06-13.

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.

  - xguest insecure password creation (CVE-2016-4980)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 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.

  - xguest insecure password creation (CVE-2016-4980)

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

According to the version of the xguest package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - A password generation weakness exists in xquest through     2016-06-13.(CVE-2016-4980)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix for CVE-2016-4980

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199478	RHEL 6 : xguest (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	low
199425	RHEL 7 : xguest (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	low
135569	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : xguest (EulerOS-SA-2020-1440)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
92241	Fedora 24 : xguest (2016-372b6f936e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
92236	Fedora 23 : xguest (2016-2a66f41200)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2016-4980

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Tenable Plugins

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