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Fedora 20 : mingw-pcre-8.33-4.fc20 (2014-17624)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80379

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix CVE-2014-8964

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Solution

Update the affected mingw-pcre package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177278

http://www.nessus.org/u?8ac748fd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80379

File Name: fedora_2014-17624.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8964

BID: 71206

FEDORA: 2014-17624