Fedora 20 : tcpdump-4.5.1-2.fc20 (2014-15541)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79608

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2014-8767 CVE-2014-8768 CVE-2014-8769

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 tcpdump package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165160

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165161

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165162

http://www.nessus.org/u?03e6da40

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79608

File Name: fedora_2014-15541.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/28/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8767, CVE-2014-8768, CVE-2014-8769

FEDORA: 2014-15541