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Fedora 17 : openssl-1.0.0j-1.fc17 (2012-7939)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59295

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is new minor upstream update fixing moderate security issue CVE-2012-2333.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected openssl package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820686

http://www.nessus.org/u?f39fb0af

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59295

File Name: fedora_2012-7939.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/30/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2333

BID: 53476

FEDORA: 2012-7939