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Fedora 27 : lightdm (2017-159a1060f6)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105821

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- lightdm-1.24.0

 - Disable guest login as system default preset (CVE-2017-8900)

 - Modernize spec-file

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 lightdm package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-159a1060f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105821

File Name: fedora_2017-159a1060f6.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lightdm, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8900