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Fedora 20 : tnftp-20141031-1.fc20 (2014-14113)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79196

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2014-8517

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 tnftp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158286

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ca94ff0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79196

File Name: fedora_2014-14113.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2014

Exploitable With

Metasploit (tnftp "savefile" Arbitrary Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8517

BID: 70792

FEDORA: 2014-14113