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Fedora 29 : botan2 (2019-e0f5a82082)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122324

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 2.9.0 including security fix for CVE-2018-20187

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 botan2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-e0f5a82082

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122324

File Name: fedora_2019-e0f5a82082.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2019

Updated: 6/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20187

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:botan2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20187