Fedora 20 : openvpn-2.3.6-1.fc20 / pkcs11-helper-1.11-3.fc20 (2014-16273)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79930

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Fix for CVE-2014-8104.

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/SecurityAnnouncement-97597e 732b

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 openvpn and / or pkcs11-helper packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169487

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169488

http://www.nessus.org/u?5f3c40e7

http://www.nessus.org/u?f4eef1da

http://www.nessus.org/u?f083f509

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79930

File Name: fedora_2014-16273.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openvpn, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pkcs11-helper, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8104

FEDORA: 2014-16273