Fedora 20 : polarssl-1.2.12-1.fc20 (2014-14898)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79394

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to 1.2.12

- CVE-2014-8628 (#1159845)

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 polarssl package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159845

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ba04bc1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79394

File Name: fedora_2014-14898.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8627, CVE-2014-8628

BID: 70902, 70905

FEDORA: 2014-14898