Fedora 28 : ncurses (2018-ed74f27aef)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120884

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2018-10754.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected ncurses package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ed74f27aef

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120884

File Name: fedora_2018-ed74f27aef.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ncurses

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10754