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Fedora 29 : 7:texlive-base / 8:texlive (2018-1959097dfc)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120259

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Update pretty much everything in texlive. Apply upstream fix for CVE-2018-17407. Resolve (hopefully) all dependency issues.

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 7:texlive-base and / or 8:texlive packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-1959097dfc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120259

File Name: fedora_2018-1959097dfc.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17407

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:7:texlive-base, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:8:texlive, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17407