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Fedora 25 : open-vm-tools (2017-4b4154d6f6)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 102185

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix /tmp race conditions in libDeployPkg (CVE-2015-5191).

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Solution

Update the affected open-vm-tools package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4b4154d6f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 102185

File Name: fedora_2017-4b4154d6f6.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:open-vm-tools, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5191