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Fedora 19 : kwebkitpart-1.3.4-5.fc19 (2014-15124)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79767

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Sanitize input to disallow JavaScript being executed in the context of the referenced hostname. See also https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141113-1.txt

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 kwebkitpart package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164293

http://www.nessus.org/u?b4a595d3

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141113-1.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79767

File Name: fedora_2014-15124.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kwebkitpart, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8600

BID: 71190

FEDORA: 2014-15124