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Fedora 29 : elfutils (2019-44a9d99647)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122279

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream release 0.176. Fixes CVE-2019-7146, CVE-2019-7148, CVE-2019-7149, CVE-2019-7150, CVE-2019-7664 and CVE-2019-7665.

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Solution

Update the affected elfutils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-44a9d99647

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122279

File Name: fedora_2019-44a9d99647.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2019

Updated: 6/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7665

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7149

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:elfutils

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-7146, CVE-2019-7148, CVE-2019-7149, CVE-2019-7150, CVE-2019-7664, CVE-2019-7665