Fedora 20 : nrpe-2.15-2.fc20 (2014-5897)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79346

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Add patch to mitigate CVE-2014-2913

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 nrpe package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089878

http://www.nessus.org/u?13795117

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79346

File Name: fedora_2014-5897.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/20/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:nrpe

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: 5/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2913

BID: 66969

FEDORA: 2014-5897