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Fedora 21 : hostapd-2.3-1.fc21 (2014-13608)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78810

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2014-3686. Update to version 2.3 from upstream.

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=1151259

http://www.nessus.org/u?359e57f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78810

File Name: fedora_2014-13608.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/3/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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:21, 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: 10/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3686

BID: 70396

FEDORA: 2014-13608