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Fedora 26 : plasma-workspace (2018-337757e11f)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106907

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix for CVE-2018-6790 CVE-2018-6791, backport crashfix for xembedsniproxy

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Solution

Update the affected plasma-workspace package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-337757e11f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106907

File Name: fedora_2018-337757e11f.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6790, CVE-2018-6791