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Fedora 26 : lynis (2017-50b9370529)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101631

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 2.5.0 / https://cisofy.com/security/cve/cve-2017-8108/

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 lynis package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-50b9370529

https://cisofy.com/security/cve/cve-2017-8108/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101631

File Name: fedora_2017-50b9370529.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lynis, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2017

Reference Information