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Fedora 20 : perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.04-4.fc20 (2014-6303)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74131

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes a server certification validation when a certificate authority is defined by HTTPS_CA_DIR or HTTPS_CA_FILE environement variable.

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 perl-LWP-Protocol-https package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094440

http://www.nessus.org/u?0f0b2b99

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74131

File Name: fedora_2014-6303.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/22/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-lwp-protocol-https

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3230

BID: 67202

FEDORA: 2014-6303