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Fedora 20 : rsync-3.1.0-3.fc20 (2014-5315)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73631

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2014-2855 and temporary reverts compilation with system provided zlib(BZ#1043965).

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 rsync package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087841

http://www.nessus.org/u?912603d5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73631

File Name: fedora_2014-5315.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/21/2014

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rsync, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2855

BID: 66929

FEDORA: 2014-5315