Detections
Analytics

Fedora 27 : openssh (2017-96d1995b70)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105931

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update provides new upstream release OpenSSH 7.6 with several bug fixes and new features, including CVE-2017-15906, compatibility with WinSCP, improvement for PAM stack, enablement for s390x sandbox, new GSSAPI key exchange methods and improvement of handling kerberos tickets.

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 openssh package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-96d1995b70

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105931

File Name: fedora_2017-96d1995b70.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15906