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Fedora 18 : hostapd-1.0-3.fc18 (2012-15680)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62532

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

EAP-TLS server: Fix TLS Message Length validation

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 hostapd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859918

http://www.nessus.org/u?3489ffe1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62532

File Name: fedora_2012-15680.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/15/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hostapd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4445

BID: 55826

FEDORA: 2012-15680