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Fedora 21 : erlang-17.4-1.fc21 (2014-17009)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80235

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Ver. 17.4

 - Disable SSLv3

 - Backport useful os:getenv/2 from master. See this GitHub pull request for further details - https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/535

 - Fixed CVE-2014-1693 (backported fix from ver. 17.x.x, see patch no. 17)

 - Trimmed dependency chain

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 erlang package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059331

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/535

http://www.nessus.org/u?e0ad7c24

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80235

File Name: fedora_2014-17009.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/26/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:erlang

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1693

FEDORA: 2014-17009