Fedora 20 : wget-1.16-3.fc20 (2014-15385)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79398

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- add fix for arches with unsigned char

- security update

- Fix the progress bar issue (#1159643)

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 wget package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181

http://www.nessus.org/u?e69e80a1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79398

File Name: fedora_2014-15385.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2014

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: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4877

BID: 70751

FEDORA: 2014-15385