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Fedora 24 : sane-backends (2017-0f5fe1913f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100307

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-6318 sane-backends: SANE_NET_CONTROL_OPTION response packet may contain memory contents of the server [fedora-all]

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This update adds the 'skip-adf' option to the avision driver. This let users work around problems on HP ScanJet 82xx/83xx scanners with no automatic document feeder attached.

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.

Solution

Update the affected sane-backends package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-0f5fe1913f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100307

File Name: fedora_2017-0f5fe1913f.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/22/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sane-backends, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6318