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Fedora 24 : mercurial (2017-b154ff2892)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101071

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVE-2017-9462.

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Solution

Update the affected mercurial package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-b154ff2892

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101071

File Name: fedora_2017-b154ff2892.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/28/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Mercurial Custom hg-ssh Wrapper Remote Code Exec)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9462