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Fedora 21 : elfutils-0.161-2.fc21 (2015-0692)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80838

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to elfutils 0.161. Security fix for CVE-2014-9447.

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 elfutils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178888

http://www.nessus.org/u?52a8c603

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80838

File Name: fedora_2015-0692.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9447

BID: 71804

FEDORA: 2015-0692