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Fedora 20 : wpa_supplicant-2.0-12.fc20 (2014-13555)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78727

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a possible security issue executing scripts with wpa_cli.

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 wpa_supplicant package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151259

http://www.nessus.org/u?3f93272f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78727

File Name: fedora_2014-13555.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3686

BID: 70396

FEDORA: 2014-13555