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Fedora 19 : perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.04-2.fc19 (2014-6369)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74169

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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.

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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?d448ff49

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74169

File Name: fedora_2014-6369.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2014

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-lwp-protocol-https, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3230

BID: 67202

FEDORA: 2014-6369